{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/002/0020126.htm","path":"chr/ecf/002/0020126.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/002/0020126.htm","text":"And Adam having been cast out of Paradise, in this condition knew Eve his wife, whom God had formed into a wife for him out of his rib. And this He did, not as if He were unable to make his wife separately, but God foreknew that man would call upon a number of gods. And having this prescience, and knowing that through the serpent error would introduce a number of gods which had no existence,\u2014for there being but one God, even then error was striving to disseminate a multitude of gods, saying, \u201cYe shall be as gods;\u201d\u2014lest, then, it should be supposed that one God made the man and another the woman, therefore He made them both; and God made the woman together with the man, not only that thus the mystery of God\u2019s sole government might be exhibited, but also that their mutual affection might be greater. Therefore said Adam to Eve, \u201cThis is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh.\u201d And besides, he prophesied, saying, \u201cFor this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife; and they two shall be one flesh;\u201d 605 which also itself has its fulfilment in ourselves. For who that marries lawfully does not despise mother and father, and his whole family connection, and all his household, cleaving to and becoming one with his own wife, fondly preferring her? So that often, for the sake of their wives, some submit even to death. This Eve, on account of her having been in the beginning deceived by the serpent, and become the author of sin, the wicked demon, who also is called Satan, who then spoke to her through the serpent, and who works even to this day in those men that are possessed by him, invokes as Eve. 606 And he is called \u201cdemon\u201d and \u201cdragon,\u201d on account of his [\u1f00\u03c0\u03bf\u03b4\u03b5\u03b4\u03c1\u03b1\u03ba\u03ad\u03bd\u03b1\u03b9] revolting from God. For at first he was an angel. And concerning his history there is a great deal to be said; wherefore I at present omit the relation of it, for I have also given an account of him in another place.\nGen. ii. 24. [Kaye justly praises our author\u2019s high estimate of Christian marriage. See his Justin M., p. 128.]\n105:606\nReferring to the bacchanalian orgies in which \u201cEva\u201d was shouted, and which the Fathers professed to believe was an unintentional invocation of Eve, the authoress of all sin.","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol II: THEOPHILUS: Chapter XXVIII.\u2014Why Eve Was Formed of Adam\u2019s Rib.","type":"page"}