is not bound to do it, but should not do it. The negative be- longs not to o<^€tAei, but to KaTaKaXvTTTicr^ai. The reason is that he is the image and glory of God. The only sense in which the man, in distinction from the woman, is the image of God, is that he represents the authority of God. He is in- vested with dominion. When, in Genesis 1, 26. 27, it is said God created man in his own image, the reference is as much to woman as to man ; for it is immediately added, " male and female created he them." So far, therefore, as the image of God consists in knowledge, righteousness and holiness. Eve as truly, and as much as Adam, bore the likeness of her Maker. But in the dominion with which man was invested over the earth, Adam was the representative of God. He is the glory of God, because in him the divine majesty is specially mani- fested. Jiut the woman is the glory of the man. That is, the woman is in this respect subordinate to the man. She is not designed to reflect the glory of God as a ruler. She is the glory of the man. She receives and reveals what there is of majesty in him. She always assumes his station ; becomes a queen if he is a king, and manifests to others the wealth and honour which may belong to her husband.
8. 9. Por the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman ; but the woman for the man.
The subordination of the woman to the man is here proved from two facts recorded in the history of their creation. First, the woman was formed out of the man, and derived her origin from him. He, and not she, was created first. Secondly, she was created on his account, and not he on hers. In this way does the New Testament constantly authenticate, not merely the moral and religious truths of the Old Testament, but its historical facts ; and makes those facts the grounds or proofs of great moral principles. It is impossible, therefore, for any Christian who believes in the inspiration of the apostles to doubt the divine authority of the Old Testament Scriptures, or to confine the inspiration of the ancient writers to their doctrinal and preceptive statements. The whole Bible is the word of God.
10. For this cause ought the woman to have power on (her) head because of the angels.