But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
3. But I would have you know It is an old proverb: “Evil manners beget good laws.” Matthew Henry makes use of this proverb in his Commentary, when summing up the contents of Luke 15. — Ed. As the rite here treated of had not been previously called in question, Paul had given no enactment respecting it.
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
Every man praying or prophesying,.... This is to be understood of praying and prophesying in public, and not in private; and not to be restrained to the person that is the mouth of the congregation to God in prayer, or who preaches to the people in the name of God; but to be applied to every individual person that attends public worship, that joins in...