ered, let her be shorn. But if it be a
shame to a woman to be shorn or made bald, let her cover her head.

11:7. The man indeed ought not to cover his head: because he is the
image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man.

11:8. For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man.

11:9. For the man was not created for the woman: but the woman for the
man.

11:10. Therefore ought the woman to have a power over her head, because
of the angels.

A power... that is, a veil or covering, as a sign that she is under the
power of her husband: and this, the apostle adds, because of the angels,
who are present in the assemblies of the faithful.

11:11. But yet neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman
without the man, in the Lord.

11:12. For as the woman is of the man, so also is the man by the woman:
but all things of God.

11:13. You yourselves judge. Doth it become a woman to pray unto God
uncovered?

11:14. Doth not even nature itself teach you that a man indeed, if he
nourish his hair, it is a shame unto him?

11:15. But if a woman nourish her hair, it is a glory to her; for her
hair is given to her for a covering.

11:16. But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom,
nor the Church of God.

11:17. Now this I ordain: not praising you, that you come together, not
for the better, but for the worse.

11:18. For first of all I hear that when you come together in the
church, there are schisms among you. And in part I believe it.

11:19. For there must be also heresies: that they also, who are approved
may be made manifest among you.

There must be also heresies... By reason of the pride and perversity of
man's heart; not by God's will or appointment; who nevertheless draws
good out of this evil, manifesting, by that occasion, who are the good
and firm Christians, and making their faith more remarkable.

11:20. When you come therefore together into one place, it is not now to
eat the Lord's supper.

The Lord's supper... So the apostle here calls the charity feasts
observed by the primitive Christians; and reprehends the abuses of the
Corinthians, on these occasions; which were the more criminal, because
these feasts were accompanied with the celebrating of the eucharistic
sacrifice and sacrament.

11:21. For every one taketh before his own supper to eat. And one indeed
is hungry and another is drunk.

11:22. What, have you no houses to eat and to drink in?