In the Lord, however, woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.
11. But neither is the man without the woman This is added partly as a check upon men, that they may not insult over women; “Qu’ils n’ayent les femmes en desdain et mocquerie;” — “That they may not hold women in disdain and derision.” and partly as a consolation to women, that they may not feel dissatisfied with being under subjection.
Paul, having answered the cases put to him, proceeds in this chapter to the redress of grievances. The first verse of the chapter is put, by those who divided the epistle into chapters, as a preface to the rest of the epistle, but seems to have been a more proper close to the last, in which he had enforced the cautions he had given against...
Commenting on 1 Corinthians 11:1-16
For as the woman is of the man,.... Originally; so Eve was of Adam, made out of one of his ribs: even so is the man also by the woman; now man is born of a woman, he is conceived of one, and brought into the world by one.