EXTRACTS
AAT A ribbon or token on a sister’s head is proper then?
JT It seems so, if we pay attention to the words used here (1 Corinthians 11). The Spirit of God uses different words. It is not just that authority is vested in her; the meaning of it is that there is authority above her that she is moving in relation to. The centurion says, “I also am a man under authority”; not that I have it in myself, but that I am under it. Yet he says to this one, Go, and he goes. But, he says, I am under authority. That is, there is another one above him and yet he orders. So that a woman might order her children, but she does it in relation to the authority above her.
AR It is like a man in a uniform—he has conferred authority.
JT Quite so; it is graded authority from the general down to the private. The general has authority which he gets from the government, and so on down; only each recognises what is above him ... If we observe the words used here we shall not go far astray. The word ‘covering’ is greater than a bow; it is more extensive in thought. It means you are covered. The word ‘authority’ does not mean that. It may be just a token of a lesser quantity, and yet it indicates the position, as a stripe on an officer’s cuff indicates his authority, his rank. I think verse 10, if you look at it simply, is a token that there is a recognition of authority above, and that gives a woman status. The angels look down and see that that woman is in her place. She is not out of rank.
J. Taylor (Vol. 67, pp.497–499)
What we appreciate in Christ will characterize us. The more I appreciate what He is as the heavenly One, the more heavenly I shall be.
C. A. Coates (‘Outline of Exodus’, p.307)
I do not believe that a single grace of Christ appears in the saints under the eye of God, or is maintained, apart from prayer.
C. A. Coates (‘Outline of Leviticus’, p.270)
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