ACC ~ 1 Corinthians 11 v7a

DIFFERENT IN SOCIAL ORDERING. AMBROSIASTER: Although man and woman are of the same substance, the man has relational priority because he is the head of the woman. He is greater than she is by cause and order, but not by substance. Woman is the glory of man, but there is an enormous distance between that and being the glory of God. COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

THE APPROACH TO GOD. CHRYSOSTOM: No governor should come before the king without the symbols of his office. Such a person would never dare to approach the royal throne without his military girdle and cloak, and in the same way, a man who approaches the throne of God should wear the symbols of his office, which in this case is represented by having one’s head uncovered. HOMILIES ON THE EPISTLES OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 26.4.

MADE IN THE IMAGE OF THE TRIUNE GOD. AUGUSTINE: This image made to the image of God is not equal to and coeternal with him whose image he is, and it would not be, even if it had not sinned at all. The meaning of the words of God when he said: “Let us make man to our image and likeness” must be understood. They were not spoken in the singular but in the plural. For man was not made in the image of the Father alone, or of the Son alone, or of the Holy Spirit alone, but in the image of the Trinity. LITERAL INTERPRETATION OF GENESIS 61.

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