4Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot: and all the people that was with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.
But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-16)Paul, having answered the cases put to him, proceeds in this chapter to the redress of grievances. The Rom. 11:1 of the chapter is put, by those who divided the epistle into chapters, as a preface to the rest of the epistle, but seems to have been a more proper close to the last, in which he had enforced the cautions he had given against the abuse of liberty, by his own example: Be ye followers of…
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