All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman: let the portion of a sinner fall upon her.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
Since it has been written, "Sin had its beginning from the woman, and this is why all die," remember from which member the woman was taken and notice where the Lord was hit by the spear. Remember, I say, our primitive condition because it was not in vain, in fact, that I previously mentioned, "Our old self has been crucified with him so that the body of sin might be destroyed and we would no longer be enslaved to sin." Eve, from whom sin had its beginning, was formed by drawing her from the side of the man. While she was drawn from his side, he lay there asleep; Christ was hanging and dead on the cross when he was wounded. To sleep and to die are closely related, and thus so are these two sides, Adam"s side and Christ"s side; the Lord was wounded where our sins originated. But from that side Eve was formed who in her sinning procured death for us; from Christ"s side, however, the church was formed that brought us back to life by giving us birth.
