The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so [are] abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Ver. 5. The woman shall not wear.] Because it is against both natural and civil honesty.
Neither shall a man put on] That is, say stage players and those that plead for them, a man shall not wear women's apparel ordinarily and daily, so as women used to do. But the word is, Put on, and so they do: the same word is used of David's putting on Saul's armour, which yet he put off again presently. So full, saith one hereupon, are our hearts of distinctions and shifts, odia restringere, ampliare favores, to restrain hatreds, as they call them - that is, the commandments that make against them.