“ For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. ”
For the man is not of the woman - The man was not formed from the woman. But the woman of the man - From his side; Genesis 2:18 , Genesis 2:22-23 .
(7) For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. (7) He proves the inequality of the woman by the fact that from the man is the substance of which woman was first made.
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...
8. For the man is not from the woman. He establishes by two arguments the pre-eminence, which he had assigned to men above women. The first is, that as the woman derives her origin fro...
For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. For, the man is not of the woman - Bishop Pearce translates ου γαρ εστιν ανηρ εκ γυναικος, αλλα γυνη εξ ανδρος, thus: "For the man doth not...
For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. Argument from man's more immediate relation to God, and 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...
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...
Covering the Head 1 Corinthians 11:2-10 No soul is complete in itself. The man is not complete apart from Christ, as the woman is not complete apart from man. As God is the head of the nature o...
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...
For the man is not of the woman ,.... In the present state of things, and according to the ordinary course of generation and propagation of mankind, man is of the woman, though not without the means...
For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. Ver. 8. But the woman of the man ] Of a bone she was made, and but one bone, Ne esset ossea, saith a divine (Vitis Palatina); a bone...
A man indeed ought not to cover , or veil, his head As a sign of subjection; forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God Namely, in respect of the dominion over the inferior creatures, with wh...
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...
Here the apostle openeth or proveth what he had before said of the woman's being the glory of the man; the woman was made of the man; the man was not made of a rib taken out of the woman, but the...
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,"...
The apostle advances a further argument for the woman's veiling:
1 Timothy 2:13 ; Genesis 2:21 ; Genesis 2:22
The man is not — In the first production of nature.