1 CORINTHIANS 11:6 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.”
For if a woman does not cover her head, she might as well have her hair cut off; but if it is a shame for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, then she should cover her head — Paul grounds his argument in the principle of shame; if the unveiled head is shameful, then the covering is required not as arbitrary rule but as protection of honor in the social world.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 11:6
“But if a woman is not veiled, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be veiled.” Thus, in the beginning he simply requires that the head be not bare: but as he proceeds he intimates both the continuance of the rule, saying, “for it is one and the same thing as if she were shaven,” and the keeping of it with all care and diligence. For he said not merely covered, but “covered over ,” meaning that she be carefully wrapped up on…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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