The reference to angels 1 Corinthians 11:10 has always been
a problem to understand. One possibility which came to me seems to be a way
out.
Hebrews 2:2 says “word spoken through angels” referring to
the giving of the Law to Moses. There seems to have been a tradition that the
Law came to Moses via angels. The same idea is given in Acts 7:53 “who have
received the Law by the direction of angels” and Galatians 3:19 “(the Law) was
appointed through angels”
This idea could have developed from Deuteronomy 33:2 “The
Lord came from Sinai … with ten thousand of saints”.
Is it possible that the term ‘because of the angels’ in 1
Corinthians 11:10 refers to the giving of the Law?
In 1 Corinthians 14:34 Paul says that as per the LAW women
were to submit to men. Is Paul making a similar appeal to the Law in 1
Corinthians 11:10 for women to show her submissiveness to men in public by
covering their head?
In that case ‘because of the angels’ basically means because
of the Law and is parallel to 1 Corinthians 14:34.
