The interpretation timeline

1Cor 11:12

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

2 Patristic · 1 Orthodox · 1 Catholic · 1 Reformed

1Cor 11:12 · Douay-Rheims
“For as the woman is of the man, so also is the man by the woman: but all things of God.”
Patristic before A.D. 750
430
A.D.
Augustine of Hippo Patristic
A.D. 354–430
“Concerning the male and female sexes, what has the son of perdition to say? That the two sexes are not from God but from the devil? What has the vessel of election to say about this? "For as the woman is from the man, so also is the man through the woman— but all things are from God." What does the devil say through the mouths of the Manichaeans about the flesh? That it is an evil substance, a creature not of God but of the enemy.”
Source
696 years pass — nothing from this stretch is hosted yet
Scholastic c. 1100 – 1500
1126
A.D.
c. 1055–1107
“The wife, he says, is from the husband. For until now the husband retains that distinction, that the wife is from him. And "the husband through the wife," that is, the wife serves in the bearing of a person, but the greater action lies in the seed. Therefore, of the husband it cannot be said in full strictness that he is "from" the wife, but "from" his father "through" the wife, as one who served in the bearing. But concerning the Lord, Paul did not speak thus, but: "born of (ἐκ) a woman" (Gal. 4:4). He was afraid to use the preposition διά, lest he give heretics occasion to say that the Lord passed through the Virgin as through a channel — or because no husband participated in His birth, but He was the fruit of the womb of Her alone. This perfection is not of the husband, but of God. If everything is accomplished by the power of God, and He Himself established the order of relations between husbands and wives, then do not argue, but obey.”
Source
1274
A.D.
Thomas Aquinas Catholic
1225–1274
“Secondly, he assigns the reason, saying: For as in the first condition of things, woman was formed from the man, so in subsequent generations man was produced through woman, as Job says: "Man born of a woman" (Jb 14:1). For the first production of man took place without man or woman, when "God formed man from the dust of the earth" (Gen 2:7). The second was from man without the woman, when He formed Eve from Adam's rib, as it says in the same place. But the third is from man and woman, as Abel was born from Adam and Eve, as it says in Gen (4:2). But the fourth was from the woman without the man, as Christ from the virgin, as it says in Gal (4:4): "God sent forth his Son born of woman." Thirdly, he shows that the reason is apt, saying: And all things are from God, namely, because even the fact that the woman was first from the man, and afterwards man is from the woman, is the result of God's action. Hence both man and woman pertain to God. Hence it says in Rom (11:36): "For from him and through him and in him are all things."”
Source
597 years pass — nothing from this stretch is hosted yet
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1871
A.D.
1871
“As the woman was formed out of (from) the man, even so is man born by means of woman; but all things (including both man and woman) are from God as their source (Rom 11:36; Co2 5:18). They depend mutually each on the other, and both on him.”
Undated date unknown
Ambrosiaster Patristic
fl. c. A.D. 366–384
“Paul adds that all things are from God so that the woman will not be upset because of her dependent condition nor will the man be proud of his responsible position.”
Modern · 1953 →

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