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1 Corinthians 11:12 (WEB)
For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.

Fathers and councils · 10

Theodoret of Cyrus, Dialogues (Eranistes) §2
“He clearly made this distinction for us in another place where he says that the being made of the man is proper to a woman, but to a man the being made by the woman, in the words ‘For as the woman is of the man so is the man by the woman.’” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 12
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Sozomen, Ecclesiastical History IV.29Book IV
“…of nothing, when it was affirmed in their own formulary that He is “God of God,” they replied that the Apostle Paul had declared that “All things are of God,” and that the Son is included in the term “all things”; and that it was in this sense, and in accordance with the Sacred Scriptures, that the expressions in…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 12.
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Augustine of Hippo, On Continence Chapter 24
““As,” saith he, “the woman from out the man, so also the man through the woman: but all things of God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 12
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Tertullian, On Prayer Chapter 15
“…for so do the nations approach their idols; which practice, of course, were its observance becoming, the apostles, who teach concerning the garb of prayer, would have comprehended in their instructions, unless any think that is was in prayer that Paul had left his cloak with Carpus!” — editor's note: See 1 Cor. xi. 3–16.
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Tertullian, On Prayer Chapter 20
“So far, however, as regards the dress of women, the variety of observance compels us—men of no consideration whatever—to treat, presumptuously indeed, after the most holy apostle, except in so far as it will not be presumptuously if we treat the subject in accordance with the apostle.” — editor's note: See 1 Cor. xi. 1–16; 1 Tim. ii. 9, 10.
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Tertullian, On the Apparel of Women II.6Book II
“God bids you “be veiled.”” — editor's note: See 1 Cor. xi. 2–16; and comp. de Or., c. xxii., and the treatise de Virg. Vel.
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Tertullian, On the Veiling of Virgins Chapter 4
“Chapter IV.—Of the Argument Drawn from 1 Cor. XI. 5–16.” — the author cites it
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Basil the Great, On the Holy Spirit Chapter 3
“For instance, the phrase “of which” does not always and absolutely, as they suppose, indicate the material, but it is more in accordance with the usage of Scripture to apply this term in the case of the Supreme Cause, as in the words “One God, of whom are all things,” and again, “All things of God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 12.
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Basil the Great, On the Holy Spirit Chapter 4
“And this he has plainly distinguished in another passage, where he says that it is proper to a woman to be made of the man, and to a man to be made through the woman, in the words “For as the woman is from [A.V., of] the man, even so is the man also through [A.V., by] the woman.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 12.
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Basil the Great, On the Holy Spirit Chapter 17
“And it is not from this source alone that our proofs of the natural communion are derived, but from the fact that He is moreover said to be “of God;” not indeed in the sense in which “all things are of God,” but in the sense of proceeding out of God, not by generation, like the Son, but as Breath of His mouth.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 12. George of Laodicea applied this passage to the Son, and wrote to the Arians: “Why complain of Pope Alexander (i.e. of Alexandria) for saying…
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