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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
s8 , 9.—For the man is not of the woman . . . but the woman for the man. By two reasons he proves that the woman is the glory of man as her head—(1.) that woman is of later date than Prayer of Manasseh , produced from him, and consequently man is the source and principle from which woman sprang. (2.) She was created to be a help to the Prayer of Manasseh , the sharer of his life, and the mother of his children. As, then, man is the beginning from which, so is he the end for which woman was made. Hence the woman is the glory of the Prayer of Manasseh , and not vice versâ.
