Human Limbs.

The beauty of the well-made increased; and that of the deformed and rough warrior became more frightening. And as much as antiquity can teach us, having short and closely shaven hair was always a sign of mourning, disdain, and the robbery of adornment. And so it was also with King David when his messengers returned home cropped short. In days of mourning, sprinkling ashes on the head reveals nothing but the stripping of the head's ornament, which mainly lies in the hair. Porta states that for children, hair is charming, for women, elegant, for young men, honest, for elderly men, unpretentious, and for soldiers, dreadful. Further, he says, just as a tree is spoiled without its foliage, when a person is shorn of hair, all their dignity disappears. Thus, the interpreters who adhere to the Apostle's words upon the letter and common translation accuse Paul tacitly of ignorance, if not falsehood, in the consideration of worldly matters. We do not wish to condone certain foolish abuses and wild wigs, which disfigure people, for we believe that even the Apostle on this reason and the proper decorum of common practice of the time, his teaching foundationally wishes to be established. Just as the covering on a woman's head he speaks of has no other origin. Therefore, we must be careful to distinguish here, not mixing different customs into one, namely, that the