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Originally Posted by Scott Hutchinson
If I understand 1 Peter 3:3 to be a prohibition of wearing any gold ,or any plaiting of the hair , then putting on of apparel is forbiden as well.I think 1 TIM.2:9 and 1 Peter 3:3 are saying that women what wear on the outside is not where their true beauty comes from ,but their real beauty comes from being adorned in a meek and quiet spirit and being adorned with that which is becometh women professing Godliness with good works. |
A close study reveals that this redundant conclusion is bogus.
Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
With respect to apparel, Peter is saying that we should not let our outward adorning be that of apparel that adorns. In other words..fancy dress.
In the Greek, the over used liberal conclusion and argument falls short of the truth and in no wise suggests that fancy hair and wearing gold is acceptable here.
Paul's teaching in
1 Tim 2:9 runs parallel in symphonic tandem and dispels any notion that
1 Peter 3:3 gives allowance by way of any short sighted liberal notions and craftiness.
1 Tim 2:9 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
I realize that this bumps up against the whole Pentecostal Dog and Pony show, but I didn't write it.
If it had been left up to me, I would have said:
Bring out Foo Foo the flipping poodle, but somehow I'm thankful that his ways are not man's ways.
To him Gold is what you walk on.
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