You guys are out of your league on this one. We haven't even got to the New Testament yet.
Anybody done a study yet on
1 Timothy 2:9? You need to get some older dictionaries out and find out what words mean.
Apparel today is a very general term that means "any article of clothing." But in the year 1611 the word "apparel" meant "loose, long flowing garment?" Look it up in an old Oxford English Dictionary that has the archaic meanings of words. The Greek word for Apparel is katastole which is an EXACTING WORD meaning a LONG FLOWING GARMENT, This is the ONLY place in the Bible where it is used. What part of a pair of pants is a long flowing garment.There are lots of words for clothing, attire, etc., but this word comes from a verb form which means "to lower." It denoted a loose-fitting outer garment, which was LONG. You can argue this all day long but a pair of pants is NOT a long FLOWING garment.
I don't care how anybody tries to explain this away, we need to find out what these words meant when they were written, not what is claimed they mean now.
I know we are all guilty of finding meanings using webster, etc. but a serious matter like this requires us to look further into the scripture and get ahold of the spirit in which the scripture is written.
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