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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
And if thou despise our judgments, hear the voice of Paul, with great earnestness forbidding these things, and then thou wilt perceive the absurdity of them. What then saith he? "Not with braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array." Of what favor then canst thou be worthy; when, in spite of Paul's prohibiting the married woman to have costly clothing, thou extendest this effeminacy even to thy shoes, and hast no end of contrivances for the sake of this ridicule and reproach? …
Theophylact of Ohrid
I wish, he says, that women too would lift up pure hands without wrath and deliberation, hands not defiled by robbery and greed. For when a wife compels her husband to procure for her precious stones and gold ornaments, and he steals from others, then she too, of course, is stealing. From women the apostle requires something greater, namely: to dress themselves properly, not elaborately; because the latter is considered indecent. By adornment he means such clothing as covers and conceals on all sides, and does not shamelessly expose. …
Oecumenius
Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves in respectable clothing, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly clothing, but, as be appropriate women who profess godliness, with good works. Likewise, I want the women. That is, I wish for them to raise their hands in holiness without anger or argument. Women require more than anything else to be adorned modestly. …
Western Saints
Ambrose of Milan
In our prayers, too, modesty is most pleasing and gains us much grace from our God.… A noble thing, then, is modesty, which, though giving up its rights, seizing on nothing for itself, laying claim to nothing and in some ways somewhat retiring within the sphere of its own powers, yet is rich in the sight of God, in whose sight no one is rich. Richness is modesty, for it is the portion of God. Paul bids that prayer be offered up with modesty and sobriety. …
Thomas Aquinas
Then when he says, in like manner, women also, he instructs the women: first, in regard to prayer; second, as to doctrine, at let the women learn in silence. In regard to the first he does two things: first, he shows what is required of a woman praying; second, he explains what he had said, at not with plaited hair. In regard to the first it should be noted that all things required of men praying are required also of women; that is why he says, in like manner, women also. As if to say: let them observe all that I have said. …
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