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[Esaias]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

Can you post the scriptures Paul is referring to?

For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man. For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels. Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord. For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.
(1 Corinthians 11:7-12)

He is clearly referring to Genesis 1:26-27 and Genesis 2:7-8, Genesis 2:18-25, and Genesis 3:16 and Genesis 3:20.

Interesting note on the idea of "the woman is the glory of the man": A verse in Isaiah describes the crafting of idols thus:

The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.
(Isaiah 44:13)

The Targum on that verse renders the bolded portion as "according to the praise of a woman". Rabbi Solomon Jarchi (an 11th century commentator on the Targum) says of this portion "This is a woman, who is the glory of her husband." Thus, it was apparently a common idea in Judaism that the woman was understood to be "the glory of the man", that is to say, women were considered something that adorned their husbands with praise and beauty. Now, whether Jarchi got the idea from Paul and later Christians, or whether Jarchi's comment reflects an independent stream of thought, is hard to say. But in any case Paul certainly maintained that the woman is the glory of the man.