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To: AnalogReigns

I hope you are trying to be funny.

Otherwise, hat is insanity. In context, he was referring to a woman’s length hair.

Samson had long hair because he was a Nazarite, and it was braided up. As was Absalom’s. It got him killed.


102 posted on 04/18/2016 11:43:07 AM PDT by odawg
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To: odawg
My point is that the long hair that Paul spoke of would be REALLY long. Not simply shaggy--as you'd find at the time, with a poor man--as Jesus was.

There's a world of difference between hair like this:

and hair like this:

Point being, just because he didn't have a modern Western crew cut, by the cultural standards of the day, Jesus did not have "long hair."

103 posted on 04/18/2016 1:41:30 PM PDT by AnalogReigns (Real life is ANALOG...)
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