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as a thing unbecoming men, especially men engaging in prayer. — eW/, is) Such a woman does not differ from one, that has been shaved.
6. KeipatQu, let her he shorn ) As the hinder part of the head is by nature in the man and the woman respectively, so in general it is becoming the forehead to be in its mode of dressing : ver. 14. The imperative here is that of permission, but a permission, which has in it mimesis, or a deduction to something unsuitable.1 So shaving is unbecoming in nuns. — ausyjpbv, a shame) So ver. 14. The opposite, comely , ver. 13: glory, ver. 15. — ro xeipaffdcu, v\ %vpaadou) the one is more than the other. Mic. i. 16, %vpri<rui xal xsTpai. %vparou, the back part of the head ; xslperai , the forehead. In Mic. already quoted, there follows a gradation in the enlarge- ment of the baldness occasioned by shaving.
7-10. Ovx otpsiXei, x.r.X., ought not , etc.) The man has more freedom in regard to his head-dress, especially when he is not engaged in praying or prophesying, than the woman. — xara- xaXkrs^a/, to cover) verses 7 and 10 have an exact antithesis. Observe, first, he ought not , and she ought : secondly, look at the diagram : The man ought not to be covered ; because the man is, A. the image of God, B. and the glory of God : but the woman ought to be covered : C. because she is the glory of the man, D. and on account of the angels. The man, he says, is the image of God ; supply, and of Christ from ver. 3 (see ver. 8 ; comp. ver. 12 ; ex, of, concerning the man and concerning God ; but hi a, by, concerning the woman) : not only on account of his power over the woman itself, but also on account of the causes of that power, viz., because the woman is of the man ; but she is of the man, for {yap, ver. 9) she was created for the man. But the man is, in a nearer relation, both of God and under God ; and so he represents God. Now because man is the image of God, he is at the same time the glory of God ; comp. glory, 2 Cor. viii. 23. But the woman is the glory of the man ; because the man is the head and lord of the woman. It is not said, the image and glory of the man ; but only the glory of the
1 A woman would not wish KtipuoOoii. But if she wishes to he uncovered in front, let her also be uncovered behind, «.e., ku^o,(t6u. This allusion to the supposed words of the woman, whom he refutes, constitutes the mimesis. See Appendix. — Ed.
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