Monday, March 26, 2007

"Death From Eve, Life From Mary"

"The word of the devil had entered Eve, building death; the word of God, the builder of life, had also to find its way into a virgin, so that what had hastened towards perdition through (feminine) sex should turn back towards life through the same sex. Eve believed the serpent; Mary believed Gabriel. The sin which the former committed through believing (the devil), the latter corrected through her faith."

-Tertullian

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