ACC ~ 1 Corinthians 11 v14

THE TABLETS OF NATURAL LAW. TERTULLIAN: If you demand a divine law, you have that common one prevailing all over the world, written on the tablets of nature, to which also St. Paul is accustomed to appeal. Thus he says concerning the veiling of women: “Does not nature teach you this?” Again, in saying in his letter to the Romans that the Gentiles do by nature what the law prescribes, he hints at the existence of natural law and a nature founded on law. THE CHAPLET 6.1.

LEVITICAL LAW ON LONG HAIR. AMBROSIASTER: This is in line with Leviticus [19:27], which prohibits a man from having long hair. COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

NATURE ITSELF TEACHES. AMBROSE: One act is becoming to a man, another to a woman. … How unsightly it is for a man to act like a woman! LETTER 78.

WHY SUCH LONG HAIR? AUGUSTINE: What is the reason, I wonder, why men wear their hair long contrary to the precept of the apostle? Is it to furnish greater leisure to the barbers? Or is it because they wish to imitate the birds of the gospel? Maybe they fear being plucked so that they might be unable to fly? I refrain from saying more concerning this habit, because of certain long-haired brothers whom, in almost all other respects, we hold in high esteem. But in proportion as we love them the more in Christ, to that degree do we advise them the more earnestly. THE WORK OF MONKS 31.

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