Symbol of Authority

It is on the same principle that the inspired apostle commands Christian women in the assembly to have a covering (the symbol of subjection to another's authority) on their heads. It is on account of the angels, because they are accustomed to seeing, in the heavenly courts above, everything, and everyone in their proper places.
Therefore they would be grieved if they saw a woman without that symbol of authority on her head in the Church, where those heavenly principalities study the wisdom of God.
In that most solemn closing epistle of Jude, we find the violation of this all-pervading divine principle of order visited with the most terrible judgments. The awful solemnity shows how God from His throne of holiness and majesty looks at the daring transgressors of the divine law of order, when speaking of certain who had crept into the Church unawares. "Ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ." We are reminded there of those "everlasting chains," in which those angels, who "kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation," are reserved "under darkness unto the judgment of the great day." Also we read of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities, who suffered the vengeance of eternal fire, (notice the word eternal) for giving themselves over to fornication and going after strange flesh.
We are further reminded of that awful moment when the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up Core and those with him, for their rebellious contempt of the authorities of divine order, instituted by God. Jude refers also to those, who "despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.... To whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.”
There are two evil extremes in that solemn epistle, against which we have to be equally on our guard, in these days more than ever. They are: despising dominion and speaking evil of its dignities, and having men's persons in admiration.
As to the heavenly courts above, we find in those passages of the Old and New Testament in which the