Albert Barnes Commentary


Albert Barnes Commentary
"For if a woman is not veiled, let her also be shorn: but if it is a shame to a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be veiled." — 1 Corinthians 11:6 (ASV)
For if the woman be not covered. If her head is not covered with a veil.
Let her also be shorn. Let her long hair be cut off. Let her lay aside all the usual and proper indications of her sex and rank in life. If it is done in one respect, it may with the same propriety be done in all. See the note above.
But if it be a shame, etc. If custom, nature, and habit, and if the common and usual feelings and views among men would pronounce this to be a shame, the other would also be pronounced to be a shame by the same custom and common sense of men.
Let her be covered. With a veil. Let her wear the customary attire indicative of modesty and a sense of subordination. Let her not lay this aside, even on any pretense of religion.