What does it mean 1Corinthians 11:2-16? (Part 4)
The problem with the hair cut or shaved
But, what is the problem with shaven head? What did Paul intend with this illustration?
• Deu 21:10-12 -> ““When you go out to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God gives them into your hand and you take them captive, and you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you desire to take her to be your wife, and you bring her home to your house, she shall shave her head and pare her nails.”.
See that only the women who were taken captive shaved their head as an expression of lamentation for being obliged to marry a man who hadn’t anything to do with her.
There is, also, example in the Holy Scripture of the Creator punishing the women with baldness in virtue of them trying to entice the men as harlots:
• Isa 3:24 -> “Instead of perfume there will be rottenness; and instead of a belt, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a rich robe, a skirt of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.””.
The Creator also used the figure of shaving with a razor all the hair of all Israelites in virtue of their sins (especially idolatry):
• Isa 7:20 -> “In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired beyond the River—with the king of Assyria—the head and the hair of the feet, and it will sweep away the beard also.”.
This was so because there was a custom of making bald the head for lamenting the dead:
• Jeremiah 16.6 -> “Both great and small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried, and no one shall lament for them or cut himself or make himself bald for them.”.
And the Creator condemned it:
• Lev 21:5 -> “They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.”.
• Deuteronomy 14.1 -> “You are the sons of the LORD your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead.”.
Tomorrow we will carry on.
The problem with the hair cut or shaved
But, what is the problem with shaven head? What did Paul intend with this illustration?
• Deu 21:10-12 -> ““When you go out to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God gives them into your hand and you take them captive, and you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you desire to take her to be your wife, and you bring her home to your house, she shall shave her head and pare her nails.”.
See that only the women who were taken captive shaved their head as an expression of lamentation for being obliged to marry a man who hadn’t anything to do with her.
There is, also, example in the Holy Scripture of the Creator punishing the women with baldness in virtue of them trying to entice the men as harlots:
• Isa 3:24 -> “Instead of perfume there will be rottenness; and instead of a belt, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a rich robe, a skirt of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.””.
The Creator also used the figure of shaving with a razor all the hair of all Israelites in virtue of their sins (especially idolatry):
• Isa 7:20 -> “In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired beyond the River—with the king of Assyria—the head and the hair of the feet, and it will sweep away the beard also.”.
This was so because there was a custom of making bald the head for lamenting the dead:
• Jeremiah 16.6 -> “Both great and small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried, and no one shall lament for them or cut himself or make himself bald for them.”.
And the Creator condemned it:
• Lev 21:5 -> “They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.”.
• Deuteronomy 14.1 -> “You are the sons of the LORD your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead.”.
Tomorrow we will carry on.