Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Corinthians 11:7

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 the man .

Covering the head, being in those Countries a token of subjection, a man ought to uphold the power, preheminence, and authority, with which God hath invested him, and not to cover his head, further than it is naturally covered with hair,

because he hath a peculiar cause of glorying in God, as he to whom alone he is subject, and therefore ought by no habits or postures to shew himself in subjection to others: Or because God glorieth in him, as a most excellent piece of his workmanship, God is represented in man. Paul useth to call that ones glory wherein he glorieth, 2 Cor. 1.12, 14. 1 Thess. 2.20. So David calleth God his Glory, and Prov. 17.6. Solomon tells us, that the Glory of children are their parents. So as the Apostle here useth a double Argument for the mans not covering of his head. 1. Because the man is immediately subject to God, and therefore ought not by any habits, or civil Rites, to shew his natural subjection to men that are not by Nature his Superiors (for we must not think, that the Apostle by this Argument forbiddeth subjection to Natural, Oeconomical, or Political Superiours.) 2. Because God glorieth in man;

But the woman is the glory of the man, created for the honour of the man, and for his help and assistance, and originally made out of man, so as man may glory of her, as Adam did of Eve, Gen. 2.23. This is now bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh. The glory of God ought to be revealed, and uncovered, manifested to all: the glory of the man ought to be hidden and concealed.

Marginal references: Gen. 1.26, 27.