PHILIP B. PAYNE* © 2006 Payne Loving Trust. All rights reserved. C. F. D. Moule wrote that the problems raised by 1 Corinthians 11:2–16 “still await a really convincing explanation.”1 G. B. Caird added, “It can hardly be said that the passage has yet surrendered its secret.”2 W. Meeks regarded it as “one of the most obscure passages in the Pauline letters.”3 First Corinthians 11 repeatedly identifies problems