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Patristic A.D. 215 · Historical Christian Faith commentaries database, on 1Cor 11:15 (The Instructor Book 3)

Clement of Alexandria, on 1Cor 11:15

Clement of Alexandria · c. A.D. 150–215
1Cor 11:15 · Douay-Rheims
“But if a woman nourish her hair, it is a glory to her; for her hair is given to her for a covering.”
On this verse:
“But additions of other people's hair are entirely to be rejected, and it is a most sacrilegious thing for spurious hair to shade the head, covering the skull with dead locks. For on whom does the presbyter lay his hand? Whom does he bless? Not the woman decked out, but another's hair, and through them another head. And if "the man is head of the woman, and God of the man," how is it not impious that they should fall into double sins? For they deceive the men by the excessive quantity of their hair; and shame the Lord as far as in them lies, by adorning themselves meretriciously, in order to dissemble the truth. And they defame the head, which is truly beautiful.”

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