A list of cases in which people of God appear unclothed. Noah drinks wine and lies uncovered in his tent in Genesis 9:21. Saul strips off his clothes, prophesies, and lies naked all day and night in 1 Samuel 19:24. David is mocked by Michal in 2 Samuel 6:20 for uncovering himself before his servants’ maids. In Isaiah 20:3-4 the LORD tells Isaiah to walk naked and barefoot for three years as a sign against Egypt.
The argument asks whether such conduct suits those held up as examples to the faithful.
He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent.
Genesis 9:21
And he too stripped off his clothes, and he too prophesied before Samuel and lay naked all that day and all that night. Thus it is said, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”
1 Samuel 19:24
Then the LORD said, “As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and a portent against Egypt and Cush, so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptian captives and the Cushite exiles, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered, the nakedness of Egypt.
Isaiah 20:3-4
Source: see Credits and references (no. 34, p. 28).