Scholar Albert Barnes observed: “As a runner would be careful not to encumber himself with a garment which would be apt to wind around his legs in running, and hinder him, so it should be with the Christian, who especially ought to lay aside everything which resembles this. ”
محققی به نام آلبرت بارنز در این مورد گفت :‏ « دوندگان آن دوران ردایی که به پا بپیچد یا مانع دویدنشان شود نمی‌پوشیدند .‏