Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
is of . . . of—takes his being from ("out of") . . . from: referring to woman's original creation, "taken out of man" (compare Genesis 2:23). The woman was made by God mediately through the man, who was, as it were, a veil or medium placed between her and God, and therefore, should wear the veil or head-covering in public worship, in acknowledgement of this subordination to man in the order of creation. The man being made immediately by God as His glory, has no veil between himself and God [FABER STAPULENSIS in BENGEL].
Argument, also, from man's more immediate relation to God, and the woman's to man.
he is . . . image . . . glory of God—being created in God's "image," first and directly: the woman, subsequently, and indirectly, through the mediation of man. Man is the representative of God's "glory" this ideal of man being realized most fully in the Son of man (Psalms 8:4-5; compare II Corinthians 8:23). Man is declared in Scripture to be both the "image," and in the "likeness," of God (compare James 3:9). But "image" alone is applied to the Son of God (Colossians 1:15; compare Hebrews 1:3). "Express image," Greek, "the impress." The Divine Son is not merely "like" God, He is God of God, "being of one substance (essence) with the Father." [Nicene Creed].
woman . . . glory of . . . man—He does not say, also, "the image of the man." For the sexes differ: moreover, the woman is created in the image of God, as well as the man (Genesis 1:26-27). But as the moon in relation to the sun (Genesis 37:9), so woman shines not so much with light direct from God, as with light derived from man, that is, in her order in creation; not that she does not in grace come individually into direct communion with God; but even here much of her knowledge is mediately given her through man, on whom she is naturally dependent.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 1 Corinthians 11:8:
Song of Solomon 4:1
Song of Solomon 5:11
1 Corinthians 11:3
1 Timothy 2:13
James 5:14
1 Peter 3:1
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