(b) But why authority? ‘According to Paul, … it is man, and not woman, who is the glory of God, and who will therefore naturally play the active role in worship … Yet now woman, too, speaks to God in prayer and declares his word in prophecy; to do this she needs authority and power from God. The head-covering which symbolizes the effacement of man’s glory in the presence of God also serves as the sign of the ἐξουσία which is given to the woman’ (pp. 415 f.). That is, her veil represents the new