1 Corinthians 11:5 (WEB)
But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.
Fathers and councils · 11
Irenaeus of Lyons
“For, in his Epistle to the Corinthians, he speaks expressly of prophetical gifts, and recognises men and women prophesying in the Church.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 4, 5.
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Jerome
“…to ask the mothers of their communities to cut their hair; not that afterwards they go about with heads uncovered in defiance of the apostle’s command, for they wear a close-fitting cap and a veil.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 5, 6.
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Tertullian
“…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“For they who allow to virgins immunity from head-covering, appear to rest on this; that the apostle has not defined “virgins” by name, but “women,” as “to be veiled;” nor the sex generally, so as to say “females,” but a class of the sex, by saying “women:” for if he had named the sex by saying “females,”…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 5.
Read the whole comment“But, withal, the declaration is plain: “Every woman,” saith he, “praying and prophesying with head uncovered, dishonoureth her own head.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 5.
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“Chapter IV.—Of the Argument Drawn from 1 Cor. XI. 5–16.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“…on women silence in the church, that they speak not for the mere sake of learning (although that even they have the right of prophesying, he has already shown when he covers the woman that prophesies with a veil), he goes to the law for his sanction that woman should be under obedience.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 5, 6. [See Kaye, p. 228.]
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Augustine of Hippo
“For she is instructed for this very reason to cover her head, which he is forbidden to do because he is the image of God.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 7, 5
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Clement of Alexandria
“For this is the wish of the Word, since it is becoming for her to pray veiled.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 5. [This helps to the due rendering of ἐξουσίαν ἐπὶ τῆς κεφαλῆς in 1 Cor. xi. 10.]
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Cross-references · 10
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XII.7.
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Cited together in On the Veiling of Virgins Chapter 4.