Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [1 Corinthians: Chapter 11].
masculine), "with the head unveiled." Probably some of the women
had violated this custom. "Amongst Greeks only the \hetairai\, so
numerous in Corinth, went about unveiled; slave-women wore the
shaven head--also a punishment of the adulteress" (Findlay). Cf.
Nu 5:18. {One and the same thing as if she were shaven} (\hen
kai to auto t•i exur•men•i\). Literally, "One and the same thing
with the one shaven" (associative instrumental case again,
Robertson, _Grammar_, p. 530). Perfect passive articular
participle of the verb \xura•\, later form for the old \xure•\.
It is public praying and prophesying that the Apostle here has in
mind. He does not here condemn the act, but the breach of custom
which would bring reproach. A woman convicted of adultery had her
hair shorn (Isa 7:20). The Justinian code prescribed shaving
the head for an adulteress whom the husband refused to receive
after two years. Paul does not tell Corinthian Christian women to
put themselves on a level with courtesans.
11:6 {Let her also be shorn} (\kai keirasth•\). Aorist middle
imperative of \keir•\, to shear (as sheep). Let her cut her hair
close. A single act by the woman. {If it is a shame} (\ei de
aischron\). Condition of first class assumed to be true.
\Aischron\ is old adjective from \aischos\, bareness, disgrace.
Clearly Paul uses such strong language because of the effect on a
woman's reputation in Corinth by such conduct that proclaimed her
a lewd woman. Social custom varied in the world then as now, but
there was no alternative in Corinth. {To be shorn or shaven} (\to
keirasthai kai xurasthai\). Articular infinitives subject of
copula \estin\ understood, \keirasthai\ first aorist middle,
\xurasthai\ present middle. Note change in tense. {Let her be
veiled} (\katakaluptesth•\). Present middle imperative of old
compound \kata-kalupt•\, here alone in N.T. Let her cover up
herself with the veil (down, \kata\, the Greek says, the veil
hanging down from the head).
11:7 {The image and glory of God} (\eik•n kai doxa theou\).
Anarthrous substantives, but definite. Reference to Ge 1:28;
2:26 whereby man is made directly in the image (\eik•n\) of God.
It is the moral likeness of God, not any bodily resemblance.
Ellicott notes that man is the glory (\doxa\) of God as the crown
of creation and as endowed with sovereignty like God himself.
{The glory of the man} (\doxa andros\). Anarthrous also, man's
glory. In Ge 2:26 the LXX has \anthr•pos\ (Greek word for both
male and female), not \an•r\ (male) as here. But the woman
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