14. "And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the
transgression.
15. "Notwithstanding, she shall be saved in child-bearing, if they
continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety."--_1 Tim. ii._
3. "But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and
the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God."
That is to say, the woman sustains the same relation to the man that man
does to Christ, and man sustains the same relation to Christ that Christ
does to God.
This places the woman infinitely below the man. And yet this barbarous
idiocy is regarded as divinely inspired. How can any woman look other
than with contempt upon such passages? How can any woman believe that
this is the will of a most merciful God?
7. "For a man, indeed, ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is
the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man."
And this is justified from the remarkable fact set forth in the next
verse: