Genesis 2:22 (WEB)
The LORD God made a woman from the rib which he had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.
Catechism · 3
The Sacrament of Matrimony
“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.
“Their relations were distorted by mutual recriminations; their mutual attraction, the Creator's own gift, changed into a relationship of domination and lust;” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Gen 2:22; 3:16b.
Man
“"Being man" or "being woman" is a reality which is good and willed by God: man and woman possess an inalienable dignity which comes to them immediately from God their Creator.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Gen 2:7, 22.
Fathers and councils · 15
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“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“That is the case, for instance, where it is written of Eve, “He made it into a woman;” and again, in the book of Numbers, where the women who have not known a man by lying with him, that is to say, the virgins, are ordered to be saved from being put to death.” — editor's note: Gen. ii. 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
Read the whole comment“…of the Son; and so the third person as of the Spirit, is, they say, the woman, who has so proceeded from the man as not herself to be either son or daughter, although it was by her conception that the offspring was born.” — editor's note: Gen. ii. 22
Read the whole comment“As if the Holy Spirit could not have comprehended this, too, in that brief statement, while about to narrate the birth of the son afterwards in its own place; as it narrated afterwards in its own place, that the woman was taken from the side of the man, and yet has not omitted here to name her.” — editor's note: Gen. ii. 24, 22
Read the whole comment“The first woman whom God made, having taken her out of the side of a man, was called a woman before she “knew” her husband, which we are told was not till after they went out of Paradise, for the Scripture saith, “He made her a woman.”” — editor's note: Gen. ii. 22.
Read the whole comment“You have a plain passage in Genesis, when Eve herself was first made, “He made her a woman.”” — editor's note: Gen. ii. 22.
Read the whole comment“For Scripture used this very word, not saying “He formed” or “framed,” but “built her up into a woman;” whence also the apostle speaks of the edification of the body of Christ, which is the Church.” — editor's note: Gen. ii. 22.
Read the whole comment“Because of this, the first woman was formed from the side of the man when asleep, and was called Life, and the mother of all living.” — editor's note: Gen. ii. 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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Tertullian
“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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Cross-references · 20
Cited together in Catechism §1607.
Cited together in Catechism §1607.
Cited together in Catechism §1607.
Cited together in Catechism §1607.
Cited together in Catechism §1607.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 120.
Cited together in On Exhortation to Chastity Chapter 4.
Cited together in On Exhortation to Chastity Chapter 4.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 120.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XII.6.
Cited together in Catechism §1605.
Cited together in The City of God XXII.17.
Cited together in The City of God XXII.17.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 120.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 120.
Cited together in The City of God XXII.17.
Cited together in The City of God XXII.17.
Cited together in The City of God XXII.17.
Cited together in To His Wife I.2.
Cited together in Catechism §1607 and 2 other places.