THE FIRST EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS - Chapter 11 - Verse 9
Verse 9. Neither was the man created for the woman, etc. This is a
simple statement of what is expressed in Genesis. The woman was made
for the comfort and happiness of the man. Not to be a slave, but a
help-meet; not to be the minister of his pleasures, but to be his aid
and comforter in life; not to be regarded as of inferior nature and
rank, but to be his friend, to divide his sorrows, and to multiply
and extend his joys; yet still to be in a station subordinate to him.
He is to be the head; the ruler; the presider in the family circle;
and she was created to aid him in his duties, to comfort him in his
afflictions, to partake with him of his pleasures. Her rank is
therefore honourable, though it is subordinate. It is, in some respects,
the more honourable because it is subordinate; and as her happiness is
dependent on him, she has the higher claim to his protection
and his tender care. The whole of Paul's idea here is, that her
situation and rank as subordinate should be recognised by her at all
times, and that in his presence it was proper that she should wear
the usual symbol of modesty and subordination, the veil.
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