Glory Veiled
“But if a woman have long hair it is a glory to her;” I Corinthians 11:15a
So here we are told that her long hair is a glory . . .
” For her hair is given her for a covering” 15b
And that her hair is given to her for a covering . . . yet you look this word up in the Strongs Concordance and it is has a different meaning than the meaning of the word cover in verses 4,6 and 7. So our long hair is not taking the place of what God intends us to use to cover our glory.
“But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth (to speak with inspiration) with her head uncovered (unveiled) dishonoreth her head; for that is even all one as if she were shaven. For if a woman be not covered (or veiled) let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven (shaved), let her be covered (or veiled).” I Cor. 11:5,6
Is it a shame to have your hair shaved off? My niece that had surgery to remove the tumor by her brain had a large portion of her hair shaved, My sister tries to hide it by letting her hair hang down instead of putting it in a pony tail like she always did before. And it works (I think though not having seen it) because the part the doctors shaved off was not the top of her head but lower at the back\bottom of her scalp. Why would she want to hide it?
The Bible says in other words (Does it not?) that if it is a shame to have your hair shaved then it might as well be cut.
I find it interesting that the ladies that have worn a veil and later stop wearing this symbol after a while will cut their hair.
I have many friends here at Kitchi who have not “grown up” with this practice but have chosen,shall we say way\practice, of applying this Scripture.
Delight testifies of such a feeling of peace filling her heart completely when she put on her veil. Fear had been prevalent in her life, and now she worries not, she RESTS in God’s care.
For Bonnie, she says she couldn’t get away from the phrase “to have power on her head because of the angels”
What does that mystical verse mean? “For this cause ought a woman to have power on her head because of the angels.”