Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
Ver. 3. Whose adorning] Mundus muliebris. A woman's world. See Isaiah 3:18. Where the prophet as punctually inveighs against this noble vanity, as if he had viewed the ladies' wardrobes in Jerusalem.
Let it not be that outward] Vestium curiositas, deformitatis mentium et morum indicium est, saith Bernard. Excessive neatness is a sign of inward nastiness. It was a true saying of wise Cato, Cultus magna cura, magna est virtutis iniuria, They are never good that strive to be overly fine. Superfluous apparel, saith Cyprian, is worse than whoredom. Lysander would not suffer his daughters to wear gorgeous attire; saying it would not make them so comely as common.