Power; that is, a veil, as the token of her husband's rightful authority over her, and of her subjection to him.
Because of the angels; probably the holy angels, who, as "ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation," were present in the Christian assemblies, and witnessed the propriety or impropriety of their conduct, as reflecting honor or dishonor on Christ and his cause.
1 CORINTHIANS 11:10 evxousi,an {A} The presumed meaning of the difficult evxousi,an in this passage is given by the explanatory gloss ka,lumma “a veil,” read by several versional and patristic witnes...
Verse 1 Corinthians 11:10. _FOR THIS CAUSE OUGHT THE WOMAN TO HAVE POWER ON_ HER _HEAD BECAUSE OF THE ANGELS._] There are few portions in the sacred writings that have given rise to such a variety of...
FOR THIS CAUSE ... - There is scarcely any passage in the Scriptures which has more exercised the ingenuity of commentators than this verse. The various attempts which have been made to explain it may...
II. THE CHURCH, THE BODY OF CHRIST: CHAPTER S 11-14 1. Headship, and the Position of Woman. The Lord's Supper. CHAPTER 11. _ 1. The Headship of Christ and of the Man; Position of Woman. (1 Corinthi...
1 Corinthians 11:2. 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 his grave c...
1 Corinthians 11:7. THE DESECRATION OF THE LORD'S SUPPER. Paul feels that in one respect he must restrict his praise. Their meetings damage rather than profit them. He cannot help believing part of wh...
I praise you because you remember me in all things and because you hold fast to the traditions as I handed them down to you. But I want you to know that Christ is the head of every man, and that the m...
THE LIMITS OF CHRISTIAN FREEDOM (1 Corinthians 10:23-33 ; 1 Corinthians 11:1) 11:1 All things are allowed to me, but all things are not good for me. All things are allowed, but all things do not buil...
FOR THIS CAUSE. On account of (as above) this. POWER. authority (App-172.), i.e. the sign of authority,. veil, which betokened subjection to her husband. Compare Genesis 24:65. ON. App-104. BECAUSE...
The Conduct and Dress of Women at the Public Services of the Church 2. _Now I praise you, brethren, that you remember me in all things_ There is no contradiction between this verse and 1 Corinthians 1...
_For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head_ That is, as in the margin of our version, - _a covering in sign that she is under the power of her husband_." An _hilyng_(_hülle_, veil), Wic...
1 Corinthians 11:2-16. THE CONDUCT AND DRESS OF WOMEN AT THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE CHURCH...
ἘΞΟΥΣΊΑΝ. That is, as in the margin of our version, ‘_a covering in sign that she is under the power_ (or rather _authority_, see below) _of her husband_.’ _Fourth_ argument, drawn from the presence o...
_THE MATTER OF THE HEAD COVERING 1 CORINTHIANS 11:1-16:_ One issue that has been in the forefront of discussion from the late 20th century until now has been the role of women in society and in the ch...
ΈΞΟΥΣΊΑΝ (G1849) власть, право осуществлять действия. Покрытая голова указывает на право женщины молиться и поклоняться, так как это знак ее верности и покорности мужу (Schlatter; M.D.Hooker, "Authori...
FOR THIS CAUSE OUGHT THE WOMAN TO HAVE POWER, &C.— Mr. Locke acknowledges, with a modesty which does him much honour, that he did not understand this text,—and many seem to have darkened it bytheir at...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _When praying or Prophesying_ (1-16) _Text_ 1 Corinthians 11:1-16 Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. 2 Now I praise you that ye remember me in all things, and h...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Order, a Requirement for Godly Worship (1 Corinthians 11:3-16) 3But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a woman is her husband, and...
For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels. For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels. POWER ON HER HEAD - the kerchief: Fre...
32 It has been customary, in the study of "dispensational" truth, to divide the human race into "the Jew, the Gentile, and the church of God", and base the division on this passage. It is well, howeve...
11:10 authority (a-7) i.e. a token of the authority under which she stands. her (b-9) Lit. 'the.'...
POWER] RV 'a sign of authority,' i.e. that she is under authority. BECAUSE OF THE ANGELS] The angels were conceived to be present as witnesses of and sharers in Christian worship. The recollection of...
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 the...
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 11 V1 Imitate me, just as I imitate Christ. PROBLEMS ABOUT *WORSHIP 11:2-34 1. MEN AND WOMEN IN *WORSHIP 11:2-16 V2 I praise you because...
FOR THIS CAUSE OUGHT THE WOMAN TO HAVE POWER ON HER HEAD. — The two clauses which compose this verse are, perhaps, the two most difficult passages in the New Testament, and, accordingly, have given ri...
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 had h...
§ 36. MAN AND WOMAN IN THE LORD. The Ap. has insisted on the woman's retaining the veil in token of the Divine order pervading the universe, which Christ exhibits in His subordination to the Father. B...
is the counterstatement to 1 Corinthians 11:7 _a_, undeveloped there: “ _For this reason_ the woman is bound to wear authority upon her head” _sc_., the reason made out in 1 Corinthians 11:7-9;...
COVERING THE HEAD 1 Corinthians 11:2 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 of Jesus 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...
An Argument From the Order of Creation There was nothing created that was superior to man (Genesis 1:2-31; Psalms 8:6). Because of this, Paul said a man covering his head would bring shame on himself,...
(9) For this cause ought the woman to have (c) power on [her] head because of the (10) angels. (9) The conclusion: women must be covered, to show by this external sign their subjection. (c) A coveri...
_A power: That is, a veil or covering, as a sign that she is under the power of her husband: and this, the apostle adds, because of the angels, who are present in the assemblies of the faithful. (Chal...
“For this cause ought the woman to have a sign of power on her head because of the angels.” _ For this cause:_ because she was formed _from_ him and _for_ him. Literally it is: “the woman ought to ha...
Thus far the apostle has been arguing from the parallel between the subordinate position which Christian principle ascribes to the woman (1 Corinthians 11:3), and the receptive position of the man rel...
VII. THE DEMEANOUR OF WOMEN IN PUBLIC WORSHIP. CHAP. 11:2-16. The apostle has just treated a series of subjects belonging to the domain of the Church's moral life, especially in connection with Christ...
(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 you...
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
_THE FEMALE HEAD-DRESS_ ‘Power on her head because of the angels.’ 1 Corinthians 11:10 The little section of the First Epistle to the Corinthians in which St. Paul deals with the question of the re...
10._For this cause ought the woman to have power _(628) From that authority he draws an argument (629) in favor of outward decorum. “She is subject,” says he, “let her then wear a token of subjection....
Observe here the way in which the apostle grounded his replies with regard to details on the highest and fundamental principles. This is the manner of Christianity (compare Titus 2:10-14). He introduc...
FOR THIS CAUSE OUGHT THE WOMAN TO HAVE POWER ON HER HEAD,.... The generality of interpreters, by power, understand the veil, or covering on the woman's head, as a sign of the man's power over her, and...
For this cause ought the woman to have power on _her_ head because of the angels. Ver. 10. _To have power_] That is, a veil, called in Hebrew Radid, of Radad, to bear rule. And indeed what was this s...
_For this cause_ As well as for the other reasons above mentioned; _the woman ought to have power on her head_ That is, a veil, as a token of her being under the power and subjection of the man: and s...
The apostle advances a further argument for the woman's veiling:...
FOR THIS CAUSE OUGHT THE WOMAN TO HAVE POWER ON HER HEAD BECAUSE OF THE ANGELS....
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 i...
POWER: That is, a covering, in sign that she is under the power of her husband...
FOR THIS CAUSE OUGHT THE WOMAN TO HAVE. SIGN OF AUTHORITY ON HER HEAD, BECAUSE OF THE ANGELS. 'for this cause' -'Because these indisputable facts remain, all customs that truly symbolize these facts...
2-16 Here begin particulars respecting the public assemblies, ch. 1 Corinthians 11:1. In the abundance of spiritual gifts bestowed on the Corinthians, some abuses had crept in; but as Christ did the...
By POWER ON HER HEAD is here to be understood (as some think) a covering on her head, in sign that she is under the power of her husband: the thing signified is here put for the sign, as the sign is o...
for this cause ought the woman to have a sign of authority on her head, because of the angels. [The argument here runs thus: The rule which I have given you rests upon symbolism--the symbol of the wif...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I Again, the coming of the Saviour with His attendants to Achamoth is declared in like manner by him in the same Epistle, when he says, "A woman ought to have a veil up...
1 Corinthians 11:10 this G5124 reason G1223 woman G1135 ought G3784 (G5719) have G2192 (G5721) authority...
'For this reason ought the woman to have authority on her head, because of the angels.' And that is why the woman must when prophesying and being open to the Spirit and thus entering the spiritual re...
APPROACH TO WORSHIP (11:2-14:40). We now move on to a section which deals with the Christian approach to worship in the light of the particular problems of the Corinthian church. Chapter 11 covers 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, because...
Ver. 6. FOR IF A WOMAN IS NOT YELLED, LET HER ALSO BE SHORN....
After the severe censures with which the preceding chapter closes, the apostle seems glad to resume here that quiet tone in which he is most at home with his spiritual children. In fact, on the presen...
OUGHT (οφειλε). Moral obligation therefore (δια τουτο, rests on woman in the matter of dress that does not (ουκ οφειλε in verse 1 Corinthians 11:7) rest on the man.TO HAVE A SIGN OF AUTHORITY (εξο...
POWER Authority, that is, the sign of the husband's authority. ANGELS That is, of the presence of the angels....
CONTENTS: Christian order and the Lord's supper. Meaning of the Lord's table. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: The Lord's supper is a memorial of His finished atonement, a parable of His pr...
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 3:6
ON ACCOUNT OF THE ANGELS. This phrase has puzzled scholars. It may mean: (1) Because Eve was seduced to sin by evil angels (1 Timothy 2:14). [_MacKnight._]_ (2)_ To show respect to the preacher/church...
_For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels._ POWER ON THE WOMAN’S HEAD BECAUSE OF THE ANGELS 1. Hardly anything is more notable in St. Paul than his impatience o...
_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-point...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 11:10 WIFE OUGHT TO HAVE A SYMBOL OF AUTHORITY ON HER HEAD. This probably means, in the context of the Corinthian church, that the wife should wear a covering over...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 11:2 Divisions over Corporate Worship. Paul addresses issues related to the Corinthians’ behavior in worship....
CHAPTER 11 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER The Apostle proceeds to deal with the third point put before him, that of the veiling of women; for the Corinthians had asked of S. Paul whether or no women ought t...
_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, maki
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," he sets for...
Shall we turn in our Bibles now to I Corinthians 11. Paul here in the first verse said, Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ (1 Corinthians 11:1). In the previous verse he spoke about h...
Ecclesiastes 5:6; Genesis 20:16; Genesis 24:64; Genesis 24:65;...
Power on her head [ε ξ ο υ σ ι α ν]. Not in the primary sense of liberty or permission, but authority. Used here of the symbol of power, i e., the covering upon the head as a sign of her husband's aut...
For this cause also a woman ought to be veiled in the public assemblies, because of the angels — Who attend there, and before whom they should be careful not to do anything indecent or irregular....
Moreover, for this cause ought the woman TO HAVE POWER, (that is,. veil upon her head, as. sign and in token of her husband's power, and her own subjection,) BECAUSE OF THE ANGELS; that is, say some,...