1 Cor 11:2-16

From: kdlitwak (kdlitwak@concentric.net)
Date: Wed Jul 02 1997 - 13:38:31 EDT


  I won't go into much detail here,lest I receive another "severe
letter" for being off-topic. Let me just suggest, as a starting point,
that while EXOUSIAN in 1 COre 11:10 is generally treated as some sort of
passive/metaphor for a veil, in fact similar constructions are present,
as in John's Apocalypse. Whether there or elsewhere, one would be
hard-pressed to find an example of EXOUSIAN used passively. This verse
clearly means that the woman has authority to do as she wishes regarding
her head. That's a problem if Paul is inisiting the opposite. See also
MOrna Hooker on this verse.

Ken Litwak



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