Genesis 2:21 (WEB)
The LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. As the man slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.
Catechism · 1
“The woman, "flesh of his flesh," i.e., his counterpart, his equal, his nearest in all things, is given to him by God as a "helpmate"; she thus represents God from whom comes our help.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Gen 2:18-25.
Fathers and councils · 12
Tertullian
“It is certain that, from the very beginning of his nature, man was impressed with these instincts (of sleep).” — editor's note: Gen. ii. 21.
Read the whole comment“Thus in the very beginning sleep was inaugurated by ecstasy: “And God sent an ecstasy upon Adam, and he slept.”” — editor's note: Gen. ii. 21.
Read the whole comment“Now, although it here mentions the nostrils, it does not say that they were made by God; so again it speaks of skin and bones, and flesh and eyes, and sweat and blood, in subsequent passages, and yet it never intimated that they had been created by God.” — editor's note: See Gen. ii. 21, 23; iii. 5, 19; iv. 10.
Read the whole comment“For when He had moulded man, and had foreseen that a peer was necessary for him, He borrowed from his ribs one, and fashioned for him one woman; whereas, of course, neither the Artificer nor the material would have been insufficient (for the creation of more).” — editor's note: Gen. ii. 21, 22.
Read the whole comment“For Adam was the one husband of Eve, and Eve his one wife, one woman, one rib.” — editor's note: Gen. ii. 21, 22.
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Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus IV.38Book IV
“And the rib, which He had taken from the man, made He a woman,” and so on; without quoting the words, which would give the hearer the impression that they are spoken with a figurative meaning.” — editor's note: Cf. Gen. ii. 21, 22.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For if we take the one lost sheep to be the human soul in Adam, since Eve even was made out of his side, for the spiritual handling and consideration of all which things this is not the time, it remains that, by the ninety and nine left in the mountains, spirits not human, but angelical, should be meant.” — editor's note: Gen. ii. 21, 22.
Read the whole comment“Adam in the figure of Christ, Eve in the figure of the Church; whence she was called “the mother of all living.”” — editor's note: Gen. ii. 21.
Read the whole comment“When He slept on the Cross, He bore a sign, yea, He fulfilled what had been signified in Adam: for when Adam was asleep, a rib was drawn from him and Eve was created; so also while the Lord slept on the Cross, His side was transfixed with a spear, and the Sacraments flowed forth, whence the Church was born.” — editor's note: Gen. ii. 21, 22.
Read the whole comment“Nor did God create these each by himself, and join them together as alien by birth: but He created the one out of the other, setting a sign also of the power of the union in the side, whence she was drawn, was formed.” — editor's note: Gen. ii. 21, 22
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Jerome
“…Adam, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib which the Lord God had taken from man, made He a woman” for him?” — editor's note: Gen. ii. 21, 22.
Read the whole comment“There was but one Adam and but one Eve; in fact the woman was fashioned from a rib of Adam.” — editor's note: Gen. ii. 21, 22.
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Cross-references · 14
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 31.
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 31.
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 31.
Cited together in On Exhortation to Chastity Chapter 4.
Cited together in On Exhortation to Chastity Chapter 4.
Cited together in Catechism §1605.
Cited together in To His Wife I.2.
Cited together in To His Wife I.2.
Cited together in To His Wife I.2.
Cited together in On Exhortation to Chastity Chapter 4.
Cited together in To His Wife I.2.
Cited together in To His Wife I.2.
Cited together in To His Wife I.2.
Cited together in To His Wife I.2.