1Cor 11:10

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power.

That is, a covering in sign that she is under the power of her husband. [Exousia ,] appears here to be used for the sign or token of being under power or authority, that is, a veil, as Theophylact, (Ecumenius, and Photius) explain; and so one MS. of the Vulgate, the Sixtine edition, and some copies of the Itala, have {velamen.}

Gen 20:16; Gen 24:64; Gen 24:65

because.

Eccl 5:6; Matt 18:10; Heb 1:14