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Originally Posted by Narrow Is The Way
You highlighted the wrong portion, read the end of that post. Within the application we see how the Lord wants a man is to wear his garment. "LIKE A MAN" not like some men, like a man.
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I highlighted the wrong portion? Yes I read the end. The point is what you posted was self contradicory.
God did not want a man to "gird their loins". He was telling someone, Job, to gird his loins like a man. It was not a law or commandment in Deut or Numbers. Girding Loins was something done when someone was going to be working or fighting or running, because they wore long robe like garments
4 tn Heb "Gird up your loins." This idiom basically describes taking the hem of the long garment or robe and pulling it up between the legs and tucking it into the front of the belt, allowing easier and freer movement of the legs. "Girding the loins" meant the preparation for some difficult task (Jer_1:17), or for battle (Isa_5:27), or for running (1Ki_18:46). C. Gordon suggests that it includes belt-wrestling, a form of hand-to-hand mortal combat (see HUCA 23 [1950/51]: 136)
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