1 Corinthians 11:3 (WEB)
But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
Fathers and councils · 30
Augustine of Hippo
“…latter the Begotten; the former not of the Son, the latter of the Father: the former the Beginning of the latter, whence also He is called the Head of Christ, although Christ likewise is the Beginning, but not of the Father; the latter, moreover, the Image of the former, although in no respect dissimilar, and…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 3
Read the whole comment“For “the head of the woman is the man, and the head of the man is Christ.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 3.
Read the whole comment“And the stone is set at “the head,” because “Christ is the Head of the man.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 3.
Read the whole comment“Therefore one man is taken to Him, to which the Head is Christ; because “the Head of the man is Christ.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 3.
Read the whole comment“And the apostle has not refrained from using the very word itself, but has said most expressly, “Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God;” using here the name of God specially of the Father; as elsewhere, “But the head of Christ is God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 3
Read the whole comment“And again, “The head of the woman is the man, the head of the man is Christ, and the head of Christ is God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 3
Read the whole comment“…leadership and assistance; and thus, in accordance with primitive peace and order, both the man is subject to Christ, and the woman is subject to the man.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 3 and Eph. v. 23.
Read the whole comment““No man,” indeed, “ever yet hated his own flesh,” as the apostle says, when giving the precept as to loving one’s wife; but the man is the head of the woman, and Christ is the head of the man.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 3.
Read the whole comment“Here the Apostle also; “The Head of the man is Christ.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 3.
Read the whole comment“Therefore was He, as the Son of Man, anointed on the head; for “the head of the woman is the man, and the Head of the man is Christ.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 3.
Read the whole comment“…other Gentiles; being jealous over the Corinthians, and fearing in that jealousy lest their minds should be corrupted from the chastity that is in Christ; having great heaviness and continual sorrow of heart for the Israelites, because they, being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xi. 1–3.
Read the whole comment““For the head of the woman is the man, but the head of the man is Christ.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 3.
Read the whole comment“For the head of Christ is God.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 3.
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Tertullian
“Now this, to be sure, is an astonishing thing, that the Father can be taken to be the face of the Son, when He is His head; for “the head of Christ is God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 3.
Read the whole comment“…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.
Read the whole comment“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.
Read the whole comment“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.
Read the whole comment“If “the man is head of the woman,” of course (he is) of the virgin too, from whom comes the woman who has married; unless the virgin is a third generic class, some monstrosity with a head of its own.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 3 sqq.
Read the whole comment“The contraries, at all events, of all these (considerations) effect that a man is not to cover his head: to wit, because he has not by nature been gifted with excess of hair; because to be shaven or shorn is not shameful to him; because it was not on his account that the angels transgressed; because his Head is Christ.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 3.
Read the whole comment““The head of every man is Christ.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 3.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Ambrose of MilanCatena Aurea on Luke
“(1 Cor. 11:3.)” — the author cites it
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“(1 Cor. 11:3.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment - BedeCatena Aurea on Luke
“For if the head of Christ is God, (1 Cor. 11:3.)” — the author cites it
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“Nor are there two first principles; but the Father is the head of the Son; the beginning is One.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 3.
Read the whole comment“And again, The Head of every man is Christ; and again, Who is the Head of all principality and power.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 3.
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Origen
- Origen, De Principiis II.6Book II
“…things, and by Him all things consist,” who is the head of all things, alone having as head God the Father; for it is written, “The head of Christ is God;” seeing clearly also that it is written, “No one knoweth the Father, save the Son, nor doth any one know the Son, save the Father” (for who can know what wisdom…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 3.
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Ambrose of Milan
“It is written, say they, that “the head of every man is Christ, and the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 3.
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Clement of Alexandria
“And if “the man is head of the woman, and God of the man,” how is it not impious that they should fall into double sins?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 3. Nov. reads “Christ,” as in St. Paul, instead of “God.”
Read the whole comment“For neither is the woman without the man, nor the man without the woman, in the Lord.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 3, 8, 11.
Read the whole comment“The mitre that is on it [i.e., the head] is, then, a sign of most princely rule; and otherwise we have heard it said, “The Head of Christ is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 3; 2 Cor. xi. 31.
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Cross-references · 40
Cited together with
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.6.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.3 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.3 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.12.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.12.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.12.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 14.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 14.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.6.
Cited together in On the Veiling of Virgins Chapter 7 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Veiling of Virgins Chapter 7.
Cited together in On the Veiling of Virgins Chapter 7.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 14.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 14.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.6.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.6.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 14.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 14.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 14.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.6.
Cited together in Ambrose of Milan on Luke 7:36–50 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Luke 8:40–48 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Luke 8:40–48 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Luke 8:40–48 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Luke 8:40–48 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Luke 8:40–48 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Luke 8:40–48 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Luke 8:40–48 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Ambrose of Milan on Luke 23:38–43 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Ambrose of Milan on Luke 23:38–43 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 14 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.3.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.3.
Cited together in Ambrose of Milan on Luke 23:38–43 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.3.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity VI.9.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity VI.9.
Quotes
1 Corinthians 11:3 takes up the words of Genesis 40:20 (8 words in common).
1 Corinthians 11:3 takes up the words of 1 Samuel 5:4 (8 words in common).
1 Corinthians 11:3 takes up the words of Isaiah 7:8 (8 words in common).
