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.
Ver. 7. He is the image and glory of God] Even as an image in the glass doth look toward us, from whom it is reflected. So, saith one, doth God's image in us make the eyes of our minds view him the author of it in us. (Bayn's Letters.) And as the eye becometh one with that which it seeth, and is after a sort in that light it beholdeth; so are we by the vision of God, which is begun in us, one with him and in him.
The woman is the glory of the man] Either because he may glory in her, if she be good; or because she is to honour him, and give glory to him.