Genesis 3:12 (WEB)
The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
Catechism · 2
The Sacrament of Matrimony
“Their relations were distorted by mutual recriminations;” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Gen 3:12.
The Fall
“The harmony in which they had found themselves, thanks to original justice, is now destroyed: the control of the soul's spiritual faculties over the body is shattered; the union of man and woman becomes subject to tensions, their relations henceforth marked by lust and domination.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Gen 3:7-16.
Fathers and councils · 5
Augustine of Hippo
“For if an angel is able to use air, mist, cloud, fire, and any other natural substance or corporal species; and man to use face, tongue, hand, pen, letters, or any other significants, for the purpose of intimating the secret things of his own mind: in a word, if,…” — editor's note: [Judg. xiii. 20. This mysterious subject may be illustrated from Holy Scripture so as to justify our author’s very broad statement. It throws light on Gen.…
Read the whole comment“And consequently he was not deceived as the woman was deceived, but he was deceived as to the judgment which would be passed on his apology: “The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me, and I did eat.”” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 12.
Read the whole comment“But it is a worse and more damnable pride which casts about for the shelter of an excuse even in manifest sins, as these our first parents did, of whom the woman said, “The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat;” and the man said, “The woman whom Thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.”” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 12, 13.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“Or how did it benefit Adam to say, ‘The woman beguiled me?’” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 12.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“This is why the heathen rage and the peoples imagine vain things; why tree is set over against tree, hands against hand, the one stretched out in self indulgence, the others in generosity; the one unrestrained, the others fixed by nails, the one expelling Adam, the other reconciling the ends of the earth.” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 6–23.
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Cross-references · 9
Cited together in The City of God XIV.11.
Cited together in The City of God XIV.11.
Cited together in The City of God XIV.11.
Cited together in Catechism §400 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §400.
Cited together in The City of God XIV.11.
Cited together in Catechism §1607.
Cited together in Catechism §400.
Cited together in Catechism §1607.