first man, so is the whole race of women to the men. — avdpbg, from the man) from the rib of the man.
10. ’ops/Xs/, ought) This verb differs from dsT, it is necessary : o<pe/\ei denotes obligation, dsT, necessity. The former is moral, the latter, as it were, physical necessity; as in the German, wir sollen und milssen , we shall and must. — I^ovgi uv tyttv) to have power over the head. From that antithesis between ver. 7 and 10 [ ought — ought not ], it is evident that the power is the same as xaXu/4/Aa, a covering: so Gen. xx. 16, DTy DIM* lxx, e/g n/j,Yiv rou npoGunov Gov, for a covering , i.e., for a testimony of un- defiled matrimonial chastity. On the contrary, the priest was commanded dGroxotXvGrreiv, to uncover the head of the woman, who had withdrawn from the power of her husband in conse- quence of adultery, or who was at least suspected of that crime. Num. v. 18. This passage agrees admirably with both quota- tions; only s^ovgIu, power , is a more suitable word here than rifj.Yi, honour. Nor would it at all have been foreign to the purpose to compare Ps. lx. 9, Ephraim is the strength of my head. Paul uses l^ovc/av by an elegant metonymy of the sign for the thing signified ; or even by a mild metonymy of the relative for the correlative, uvoruyi}, subjection , or the like ; unless it be rather the sign, by which the woman avows and acknowledges that, although she prays and prophesies, still she is inferior to the man; in short, it is on this condition that the power of
’praying and prophesying falls to her share, and without that sign it must not be exercised. And this term is therefore more suitable, because it is closely connected with the d6%a, glory , ver. 15 : and 1%ovgIu, power , is also applied to the angels.
11. ’Ev Kvpioj, in the Lord) in Christ , by whom both the man and the woman have been created and redeemed. The differ- ence between the man and the woman, Gal. iii. 28, begins now rather to disappear in respect of Christ in this ver., and in respect of God in the following verse, than in respect of the angels. Therefore ver. 9, 10, 11, 12, elegantly correspond with one another in their short clauses.
12. 'h ywi) lx rov) Only here, and at ver. 10, the articles are added. In ver. 10, the force of the relative is at ver. 9, and in ver. 12 at ver. 11. — lx — did, from [of] — by) The particles differ; presently afterwards lx is also said of God.— Gruvra, all