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But what are the scriptural requirements relating to the length of a woman's hair? | But what are the scriptural requirements relating to the length of a woman's hair? | ||
==What does the Bible say?== | |||
The events that lie behind 1 Cor 11:3–16 seem to proceed as follows. Because of their new found freedom in Christ, women in the Corinthian church were praying and prophesying (v. 5a). Christian tradition from Pentecost on had approved of such practice (Acts 2:18), and it readily fit Paul’s own emphasis on freedom. But these women were not merely speaking in worship but doing it in a way that unnecessarily flaunted social convention and the order of creation. So Paul has to encourage them to exercise restraint. As in chapters 8–10, knowledge must be tempered with love. | |||
Unfortunately, you can't look at the English meanings to arrive at anything close to a real answer. The Bible was written in Greek and then translated into English. | Unfortunately, you can't look at the English meanings to arrive at anything close to a real answer. The Bible was written in Greek and then translated into English. | ||
The Greek words for long hair | The Greek words for long hair are "κομάω" or "κόμη" (komao or kome). It is interesting to note that the word for hair is θρίξ (thrix) and is used 15 times to denote the hair of the head or the hair of animals. It is also interesting to note that κομάω is a single word which only appears in 1 Corinthians 11 and is used to designate the hair as an ornament (with the notion of length being only secondary and suggested) and hence differs from the word for physical hair. | ||
The opening sentence in 1 Cor 11:16, “If anyone wants to be contentious about this,” is one of four such sentences in 1 Cor., each indicating that this is what some are doing. | The opening sentence in 1 Cor 11:16, “If anyone wants to be contentious about this,” is one of four such sentences in 1 Cor., each indicating that this is what some are doing. | ||
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GOD'S.ONLY.PROVIDED.PLACE.OF.WORSHIP_ SHP.LA V-7 N-4 SUNDAY_ 65-1128M | GOD'S.ONLY.PROVIDED.PLACE.OF.WORSHIP_ SHP.LA V-7 N-4 SUNDAY_ 65-1128M | ||
:''Seeing, Lord, that the mental condition, the nervous age that the people's living in, it's driving them out of their mind; to exactly fulfill what the Scripture said and promised, the great hideous things would come upon the earth; like locusts, to haunt the women that cut their hair, they'll have long hair like a woman. And different hideous sights that they'll be able to see, Lord, in that mental, diluted conditions they're in, and then screaming for the rocks and the mountains. Women who would mother dogs and cats, and not raise children to honor You. Those that You did give children to and they did conceive them, turn them loose on the streets to do as they want. No wonder You said, Lord, when You were going to the cross, "Then they'll begin to cry for the rocks and the mountains to fall on them." | :''Seeing, Lord, that the mental condition, the nervous age that the people's living in, it's driving them out of their mind; to exactly fulfill what the Scripture said and promised, the great hideous things would come upon the earth; like locusts, to haunt the women that cut their hair, they'll have long hair like a woman. And different hideous sights that they'll be able to see, Lord, in that mental, diluted conditions they're in, and then screaming for the rocks and the mountains. Women who would mother dogs and cats, and not raise children to honor You. Those that You did give children to and they did conceive them, turn them loose on the streets to do as they want. No wonder You said, Lord, when You were going to the cross, "Then they'll begin to cry for the rocks and the mountains to fall on them." | ||
==References== | |||
Blomberg, C. 1994. 1 Corinthians. The NIV Application Commentary (208). Zondervan Publishing House: Grand Rapids, MI | |||
Fee, G. D. 1987. The First Epistle to the Corinthians. The New International Commentary on the New Testament (530). Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.: Grand Rapids, MI | |||
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