1 Corinthians 11:7 (WEB)
For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.
Fathers and councils · 16
Cyril of Jerusalem
“At that time God said, let us make man after our image and after our likeness.” — editor's note: Gen. i. 26. “The ancient Church very accurately distinguished between εἰκών (image) and ὁμοίωσις (likeness), and the Greek Church does the same in its…
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X I.14Conference I
“…stupidity, even to have the slightest suspicion that the nobler part of man, in which as the blessed Apostle shows, the image and likeness of God consists, will, when the burden of the body with which it is oppressed in this world is laid aside, become insensible, when, as it contains in itself all the power of…” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. xi. 7; Col. iii. 10.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“Orth.—And rightly; for since the whole first man became subject to sin, and lost the impression of the Divine Image, and the race followed, it results that the Creator, with the intention of renewing the blurred image, assumed the nature in its entirety, and stamped an imprint far better than the first.” — editor's note: This “lost” must be qualified. The Scriptural doctrine is that the “image of God” though defaced and marred, is not lost or destroyed. After the flood the…
Read the whole comment“For it is said, that we are ‘the image and glory of God;’ and ‘for always we who live:’ there are, also, they said, many powers; for it is written—‘All the power of God went out of the land of Egypt.’” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 7
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Basil the Great
“And “a man indeed ought not to cover his head forasmuch as he is the image of God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 7.
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Jerome
““A man,” he says, “ought not to wear long hair, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 7.
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Tertullian
“…to Cæsar what are Cæsar’s, and what are God’s to God;” that is, the image of Cæsar, which is on the coin, to Cæsar, and the image of God, which is on man, to God; so as to render to Cæsar indeed money, to God yourself.” — editor's note: See Gen. i. 26, 27; ix. 6; and comp. 1 Cor. xi. 7.
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“Chapter IV.—Of the Argument Drawn from 1 Cor. XI. 5–16.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Surely of him concerning whom he adds soon afterwards: “The man ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image of God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 7.
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Augustine of Hippo
“But the apostle refutes them, saying, “For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 7
Read the whole comment“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
Read the whole comment“…same image is also the glory of the Lord; as he says elsewhere, “For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God,”—a text already discussed in the twelfth book.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 7
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Clement of Alexandria
“And if “the Lord is head of the man, and the man is head of the woman,” the man, “being the image and glory of God, is lord of the woman.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 3, 7.
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Cross-references · 14
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XII.7.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity VII.6.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity VII.6 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XII.7.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XII.7.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity VII.6.
Cited together in Letters Letter 207.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity VII.6.
Cited together in Letters Letter 207.
Cited together in Letters Letter 207.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity VII.6.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity VII.6.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity VII.6.
Cited together in On the Veiling of Virgins Chapter 4.