In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
Ver. 9. In like manner also] Men have had their lessons. Now for women they are taught modesty in their attire (such as may neither argue wantonness nor wastefulness), silence in the Church, subjection in the family.
Or costly array] Which yet great ones may wear; but they may not buy it with extortion, and line it with pride; since clothes are the ensigns of our shame, our fineness is our filthiness, and our neatness our nastiness. SeeIsaiah 3:12,26, where the prophet inveighs, as if he had viewed the ladies' wardrobes in Jerusalem.