{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-95","native_reference":{"book_number":530,"chapter_from":11,"chapter_to":11,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":5,"verse_to":5},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Clement of Alexandria</b>: And she will never fall, who puts before her eyes modesty, and her shawl; nor will she invite another to fall into sin by uncovering her face. For this is the wish of the Word, since it is becoming for her to pray veiled.<br/><i>— The Instructor Book 3</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: What is the meaning of the expression \"every woman\" except women of every age, every rank and every circumstance? No one is excepted.<br/><i>— ON PRAYER 22.4</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: In precisely the same manner, when enjoining on women silence in the church, that they speak not for the mere sake of learning (although that even they have the right of prophesying, he has already shown when he covers the woman that prophesies with a veil), he goes to the law for his sanction that woman should be under obedience.<br/><i>— Against Marcion Book V</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: For they who allow to virgins immunity from head-covering, appear to rest on this; that the apostle has not defined \"virgins\" by name, but \"women,\" as \"to be veiled; \"nor the sex generally, so as to say \"females,\" but a class of the sex, by saying \"women: \"for if he had named the sex by saying \"females,\" he would have made his limit absolute for every woman; but while he names one class of the sex, he separates another class by being silent.<br/><i>— On Prayer</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: But, withal, the declaration is plain: \"Every woman,\" saith he, \"praying and prophesying with head uncovered, dishonoureth her own head.\" What is \"every woman, but woman of every age, of every rank, of every condition? By saying\" every\" he excepts nought of womanhood, just as he excepts nought of manhood either from not being covered; for just so he says, \"Every man.<br/><i>— On Prayer</i></p><p><b>Victorinus of Pettau</b>: \"Seven thunders uttered their voices.\" The seven thunders uttering their voices signify, the Holy Spirit of sevenfold power, who through the prophets announced all things to come, and by His voice John gave his testimony in the world; but because he says that he was about to write the things which the thunders had uttered, that is, whatever things had been obscure in the announcements of the Old Testament; he is forbidden to write them, but he was charged to leave them sealed, because he is an apostle, nor was it fitting that the grace of the subsequent stage should be given in the first. \"The time,\" says he, \"is at hand.\" For the apostles, by powers, by signs, by portents, and by mighty works, have overcome unbelief. After them there is now given to the same completed Churches the comfort of having the prophetic Scriptures subsequently interpreted, for I said that after the apostles there would be interpreting prophets.</p><p>For the apostle says: \"And he placed in the Church indeed, first, apostles; secondly, prophets; thirdly, teachers,\" and the rest. And in another place he says: \"Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the others judge.\" And he says: \"Every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered, dishonoureth her head\" And when he says, \"Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the others judge,\" he is not speaking in respect of the Catholic prophecy of things unheard and unknown, but of things both announced and known. But let them judge whether or not the interpretation is consistent with the testimonies of the prophetic utterance. It is plain, therefore, that to John, armed as he was with superior virtue, this was not necessary, although the body of Christ, which is the Church, adorned with His members, ought to respond to its position.<br/><i>— Victorinus Commentary on the Apocalypse of the Blessed John</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"85fd0515e51734c84326ecf2bac0b6f330c6fa0f9580e458bcd619ab1917170e","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":95,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"333d8421897702930cfab9b182fcc4bb09283360dfb65267239c289e114b0b24","translator":null,"work":null}