the matter upon Christian principle, P. appeals in confirmation to natural feeling (13-15), and finally to the unbroken cus- tom of the Church (16).
Ver. 7. G@vnp (not 6 ἀνὴρ) μὲν yap «.7.A.: ‘For man indeed (being man) ought not to have his head veiled” (καλύπτεσθαι, pr. inf. of custom), in con- trast with woman who ought (5, 10)— this is as wrong on his part as it is right on hers; ov« negatives the whole sen- tence, asin ver. 1. ὀφείλει, like δεῖ (το), denotes moral or rational necessity, the former vb. in a more personal, the latter in a more abstract way. For him to veil his head would be to veil the ‘‘image and glory of God”; Christ, the image of God, became ἄνθρωπος as ἀνήρ.- ὑπάρ- χων (see parls.), ‘‘ being constituted ”’ so. To accompany εἰκών, P. substitutes for the ὁμοίωσις (d’muth) of Gen. the more expressive 86§a—by which the LXX renders the synonymous ¢’munah of Ps. xvil. 15—-God’s ‘‘ glory”’ being His like- ness in visible splendour; cf. Heb. i. 3. P. conceives Gen. i. 26 to apply to Adam as ἀνὴρ primarily, although in ver. 27 it stands, ‘‘God created man in His own image . . . male and female created He them”’.— yuvn δὲ κ.τ.λ. presents a shortened antithesis to the μὲν clause ; logically completed it reads, ‘‘ But the woman (ought to have her head veiled, for she) is the glory of the man”—8édéa ἀνδρός-- ποί of the race (ἀνθρώπου), but of the stronger sex. Paul omits εἰκών, which does not hold here; she is not man’s reflexion, but his counterpart— not ‘‘like to like, but like in difference,” wedded as ‘‘perfect music unto noble words’’; she partakes, through him, in the εἰκὼν Θεοῦ (Gen. 1. 27). That which in our common nature is most admirable —faith, purity, beauty—man sees mote excellently and proportionately shown in hers. It follows that he who degrades a woman sullies his manhood, and is the worst enemy of his race; the respect shown to women is the measure and Safeguard of human dignity.
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y Cf. vii.37; Io.
see note below. Rev. xiv 14. επι in like connec- tion, Jo. χμ Rev. i. 20, vii. 3, etc., xii. 1, εἰς, 31; Mk. xiii. 27; Lk. xvi. 22. passim ; Lam. iii. 3.
διὰ τοὺς * ἀγγέλους.