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We continually receive letters asking: "Should a
woman wear a covering on her head in church?"
Some churches require women to wear veils or hats
in church. They claim I Corinthians 11:1-16 as supposed
scriptural proof. They quote verse
6
specifically: "For
if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if
it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her
be covered."
Other churches use this same scripture as support
for their doctrine that women should never cut their hair.
Modernists contend that whatever Paul taught the
Corinthian Church is not for us today anyway -- and they
proceed to do as they please.
What is the truth?
Some contend Paul required women to wear veils
because it was the custom of the day for women to wear veils
in public places of worship. This is NOT true! Let
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our facts straight.
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Dictionary of the Bible article
11
Veil"
gives us the answer.
11
In
ancienttimes, the veil was
adopted only in exceptional cases, either as an article of
ornamental dress . • • or by betrothed maidens in the
presence of their husbands, especially at the time of the
wedding . . • or
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women of loose character for purposes
or concealment (Gen.
38:14)-.-
But generally speaklng, women
bOth married and unmarried appeared in public with their
faces exposed, both among the Jews . . . and among the
Egyptians and Assyrians, as proved by the invariable
absence of the veil in the sculpture and paintings of these
peoplea.w- -------
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It was not customary for women to wear veils in
Paul's day.
It is interesting to note that the fallen
church pictured in Revelation 17, the fountain-head of
harlotry, commands ita women t o wear coverings over shaven
heads
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their religious orders.