1 Timothy 2:9

In like manner also, that women adorn themselves The point of likeness consists in the fitting attitude of men and of women towards Public Worship and Common Prayer; for men, to lead in prayer with suitable posture and prepared spirit; for women, to attend in quiet dress and quiet behaviour, -unadorned" but still -adorned the most" with the halo of their church work. Cf. Titus 2:3.

modest apparel Or, seemly guise, if we take the word (which occurs only here) to refer like the Latin habitusnot solely to dress but also to demeanour. The simple noun occurs often, e.g. Luke 15:22, -bring out the best robe." The compound verb is used by the -town clerk of Ephesus," Acts 19:36, -ye ought to be composed."

with shamefastness and sobriety The word -shamefacedness" is a vulgar printer's corruption of the word used by the translators of the A.V. -shamefastness," now restored to the A.V. in the copies printed side by side with the R.V. The original word aidôsimplies a reference to external standards; a feeling of what is due to another (God or man) irrespective of consequences (in contrast to aischunê, the same feeling through fear of harm); the other word sôphrosunê, characteristic of these epistles, implies restraint upon oneself from an innate senseof what is right. The English words of the A.V. may carry the same distinction. Compare Xen. Cyrop. viii. i. 31, -the shamefast shun what is openly disgraceful, the sober-minded what is disgraceful in secret also." Cf. ch. 1 Timothy 3:2. Trench, N. T. Syn., is not quite right.

broided hair Lit. -plaitings"; -gold" seems to have the best support of mss. here, though -gold coins" is the best supported word in the parallel passage, 1 Peter 3:3, -plaiting the hair and wearing a necklace of coins."

costly array The R.V. raiment; the word in its form suggests what we convey by the modern term -wardrobe."