1 Corinthians 11:6 (WEB)
For if a woman is not covered, let her hair also be cut off. But if it is shameful for a woman to have her hair cut off or be shaved, let her be covered.
Fathers and councils · 8
Jerome
“For I might make answer to you in the Apostle’s words,“Though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 6.
Read the whole comment“…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“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“Let them know that the whole head constitutes “the woman.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 6, etc.
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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Cross-references · 1
Cited together in On the Veiling of Virgins Chapter 4.