The Lord’s Table is a wedding feast, and unless we understand our relationship to Jesus Christ as our Bridegroom, and ourselves collectively as His chosen Bride, we will not understand what is happening here.
The book of 1 Corinthians has a great deal in it about the relationship of the two sexes, and we too often think that this is a separate question from how we relate to God through Christ. But Paul is very careful to connect the two subjects, so much so that we might be forgiven for thinking they are not two subjects at all.
In chapter six, Paul shows how sexual purity is closely related to the question of our unity with Christ. The body is not for fornication, but for the Lord. In chapter eleven, he “interrupts” his discussion of the Lord’s Supper to talk about head coverings. But this is no interruption.
We are the woman; we are Eve. As Eve, we are the mother of all the living. Corporately, we are the heavenly Jerusalem, the mother of all who believe, as Paul puts it in Galatians.
So we are seated at the wedding feast, and we wear the bridal veil, the veil of which the Shekinah glory was a type. This glory is the glory of God, and yet it is bestowed on us. We therefore bear His image. We are the woman; He is the man.
As the woman, we are the glory of the man. As Eve, we were given to Adam. And as we partake of this Supper, we proclaim His death, and that proclamation is the imperishable seed by which new life comes. Our duty is therefore to observe this Supper rightly until we fill the earth with our children – the children we have borne to Him.