Read Part One HERE
In this post I will continue to discuss the subject of Head Covering since today there is a movement called the Head Covering Movement beased on 1 Corinthians 11:5 and beyond.
And every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonours her head - it is just as though her head were shaved....
In this post I will share the viewpoint of well know Roman Catholic Church father Augustine (354 - 430 A.D.)
Augustine: In writing to his friends Possidius, an elder in a local church, details the relationship of spiritual headship in the home and spiritual headship in the church: "Those who belong to this world have also to consider how they may please their wives if they be husbands, their husbands if they be wives, with this limitation that is is not becoming for women to uncover their hair, since the apostle commands to keep their heads covered."
My Comment
The Bible does not use the term spiritual "headship" in the home nor does it use the term "spiritual headship" in the church. The Bible only uses the term "head" as found in 1 Corinthians 11:3 and Ephesians 5:23.
In both verses, the Greek word used for the term "head" is "kephale" which means "physical head" or "source," "source of life." However, it does not mean "authority." These texts are, therefore, not referring to "authority." Moreover, the word "kephale" can not be translated into "headship" including spiritual "headship". Augustine is, therefore, reading into these texts something the text does not teach. Finally, it is not Paul who commanded women to keep their heads covered but some religious leaders in Corinth who demanded that woman kept their heads covered. Paul rebuked them for their words later on in the chapter and made it clear that he did not have such a custom, neither did the church of God as we know from a correct translation of 1 Corinthians 11:16
If anyone wants to be contentious about this, we have no SUCH practice - nor do the churches of God.
Read Part Four HERE
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