“ Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered? ”
Judge in yourselves - Or, “Judge among yourselves.” I appeal to you. I appeal to your natural sense of what is proper and right. Paul had used various arguments to show them the impropriety of th...
(12) Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered? (12) He urges the argument taken from the common sense of nature.
1 Corinthians 11:2-16 . Women must be Veiled in the Christian Assemblies. It is not clear whether this subject was discussed in the church letter. Paul begins, in a way that surprises us after hi...
Judge . App-122. Figure of speech Anacoenosis . App-6. is it comely . is it becoming. Greek. prepei. Elsewhere, Matthew 3:15 . Ephesians 5:3 ; 1 Timothy 2:10 ; Titus 2:1 . Hebrews 2:10 ; He...
Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered? Judge in yourselves - Consider the subject in your own common sense, and then say whether it be decent for a woman to pray in p...
Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered? Appeal to their own sense of decorum. Appeal to their own sense of decorum. A woman pray unto God. By rejecting the...
Disorders In Worship 2-16. (c) The Veiling of Women in Church 2. Now I praise you] This v. introduces the two following sections. The Apostle begins by praising them, perhaps echoing words from...
Judge in yourselves. — In this and the two following verses the Apostle reasons with them — appeals to their own common sense, and to the indications of Nature, as to the evident truth of what he h...
Chapter 16 THE VEIL AT this point of the Epistle Paul passes from the topics regarding which the Corinthians had requested him to inform them, to make some remarks on the manner in which, as he h...
Unity and Order in Public Assembly 1 Corinthians 11:11-22 The power on a woman's head in 1 Corinthians 11:10 probably refers to the veil or covering which the Grecian woman assumed at marri...
Another Corinthian question concerned the position of woman and her true attitude in the exercise of divinely bestowed gifts. He declared that woman's true position is subservience to man. The nature...
(1) Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. (2) Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you. (3) But I would have yo...
Judge in yourselves ,.... The apostle having gone through a variety of reasoning and arguments, showing the superiority of the man to the woman, by which he would prove, that the one should be cover...
Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered? Ver. 13. Judge in yourselves ] All Christ's sheep are rational, able to discern the things that differ, having their senses...
Judge in yourselves For what need of more arguments in so plain a case? Is it comely Decent, suitable to female modesty; that a woman pray unto God The Most High, with that bold and undaunted a...
Chapter s 11 to 14 no longer consider the question of testimony or conduct as before the world, but rather the conduct, order, unity that is becoming in the Assembly, the body of Christ. Yet this is...
Directions Concerning Attire; Female Subjection. A. D. 57. 1 Be ye followers of me, even as I...
No man is truly and thoroughly convinced of an error, till he be convicted by his own conscience. It is therefore very usual in holy writ for God, by his sacred penmen, to make appeals unto men's own...
The Status of Men and Women in Ministry When Prophesying and Praying Is To Be Expressed In The Covering or Uncovering of the Head (11:2-16). This question is of great importance in the church, bec...
CRITICAL NOTES [ 1 Corinthians 11:1 belongs to chap. 10, where see. Evans (in Speaker ), Stanley, and others divide this chapter at 1 Corinthians 11:16 , not 1 Corinthians 11:17 , making 1 Co...
1 Corinthians 11:2 . Keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you. The apostle mentions these twice to the Thessalonians, and nearly in the same words. 2 Thessalonians 2:15 ; 2 Thessalonians...
But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of every woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God. Christ our Head This important statement is the starting-p...
EXPOSITION 1 Corinthians 11:1 Followers of me; rather, imitators of me; follow herein my example, as I follow Christ's. What Christ's example was, in that he too "pleased not himself,"...
Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?
1 Corinthians 10:15 ; John 7:24 ; Luke 12:57
Judge of yourselves — For what need of more arguments if so plain a case? Is it decent for a woman to pray to God — The Most High, with that bold and undaunted air which she must have, when, contra...