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- Welcome to The Rapid Pull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. This week we're going to take a look at some passages that people misunderstand because they don't look at the context.
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- Context makes it clear. The first one we're going to look at is 1 Corinthians 11, 5, and 6.
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- This is dealing with head coverings. And it says, But every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head since it is the same as if her head were shaved.
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- For if a wife will not cover her head, then she should cut her hair short.
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- But since it is a disgrace for a wife to cut her hair short or shave her head, let her cover her head.
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- What is this talking about? Well, it makes it very clear that this is dealing with hair, as far as the hair being short or shaved.
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- It was a practice at the time for women to shave their head to say, or cut it short, as if they are a man in rebellion to culture and male authority.
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- Now this could also refer to a veil. We do see that this is used, this word for covering, is used as a veil in other places.
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- However, not everywhere. Other places it just means to cover. But it is sometimes used as a veil.
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- Now what we end up seeing here is that from the context, this is talking about authority.
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- That's the clear thing. It is what is honorable or dishonorable. What is graceful or really a disgrace.
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- And it is a disgrace for a woman to not have the authority under a man, and for a man not to have the authority over a woman in this text.
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- That's the meaning of the text from the context. Context helps us understand its meaning.
