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In the sixth paragraph, Anna states she has more to work with than just the ANE background or local Greek customs, but ,"it is right to consider those things". I am "considering those things" from a different angle than she mentioned. Apollo, who is spoken of as a preferred teacher over Paul by some in 1 Cor. , is a Alexandrian jew, skilled in rhetoric, was probably a student of Philo of Alexandria. Philo was a well known Jewish teacher from there. 1 Cor. 11 uses uniques phrases I have noticed parallel Philo's works. 1 Cor. 11 was not created in a vacuum, and I don't think it takes away from what Anna ultimately says. I agree with her mostly, but I just get there a different way. So no one has to agree with anything I wrote, but maybe it might add even more clarity to how this can be applied to what Anna wrote. So not missing the text. Thanks for your comment. It made me consider what I wrote needed clarification or not.

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Nic Ansell, a reformed Canadian theologian, says that the woman is the glory of the man the same way that the Lord is the glory of Israel such as in 1 Sam. 15: 29. The word here translated as glory, strength, or splender is the Hebrew word nesah. This word is translated by strong as a goal or a bright object at a distance travelled toward so figuratively splender. Well, the Lord was always the goal for Israel while "a man leaves father and mother to cleave to his wife". She represents his goal in heaven.

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