Topic > Gordon Fee's Discovery of Biblical Equality Analysis

In verse 13 Paul addresses women who prophesy with their hair combed the wrong way and says that even nature approves of this basic rule. Nature here most likely refers to “customs…long established” because Paul would have been well aware of the long-haired Jewish Nazarites and the long-haired Spartan soldiers. Paul then in the following two verses tells the same story but with the sexes reversed, now a man who prophesies with long and unkempt hair is a shame and a disgrace for women because women who have long hair choose to expose it as a symbol of their authority. Schreiner also adds, "A woman's wearing of a headdress is in accord with the God-given sense that women and men are