| Karen A. McClintock - 180 ˹éÒ
...being spiritual and not sexual or sexual but not spiritual. Around 200 CE Tertullian wrote of woman: "You are the devil's gateway; you are the unsealer...are the first deserter of the Divine Law. . . . You destroyed so easily God's image, man. On account of your desertions — that is death — even the... | |
| Brook Thomas - 2002 - 424 ˹éÒ
...into the World Through a Woman," Tertullian gives his famous, accusatory address: "And do you not know that you are (each) an Eve? The sentence of God on...(forbidden) tree: you are the first deserter of the divine law."13 Woman is thus a conventional figure for the original law-breaker. In the Restoration and early... | |
| Yusuf Da Costa - 2002 - 112 ˹éÒ
...name of Eve. In light of this, St. Tertullian (1155-1225) wrote, addressing women: Do you not know that you are each an Eve? The sentence of God on this...You are the Devil's gateway. You are the unsealer of the forbidden tree. You are the first deserter of the divine law. You are she who persuaded him whom... | |
| Tatha Wiley - 2002 - 292 ˹éÒ
...exposes a not-so-latent misogynism in his interpretation of Genesis 3. Addressing women, he writes: You are the devil's gateway: you are the unsealer...tree: you are the first deserter of the divine law: vow are she who persuaded him whom the devil was not valiant enough to attack. You destroyed so easily... | |
| Jenny Kien - 2003 - 236 ˹éÒ
...that, since Eve was the reason for evil in this world, then all women were also evil: Do you not know that you are each an Eve? The sentence of God on this...live too. You are the Devil's gateway; You are the unseater of the forbidden tree; you are the first deserter of divine law; you are she who persuaded... | |
| Iain Fenlon - 2003 - 346 ˹éÒ
...when he says to women bearing her curse, 'You are the Devil's gateway; you are the unsealer of that tree; you are the first deserter of the divine law; you are she who persuaded [Adam], whom the Devil was not strong enough to attack. You destroyed so easily God's image, man. Because... | |
| Bart D. Ehrman - 2004 - 240 ˹éÒ
...personally guilty of all the sin that has come into the world to plague man (ie, males): Do you not know that you are each an Eve? The sentence of God on this...deserter of the divine law: you are she who persuaded him [ie, Adam] whom the devil was not valiant enough to attack. You destroyed so easily God's image, man.... | |
| David W. Kling - 2004 - 403 ˹éÒ
...bombastic remarks about women encapsulated the prevailing views of the fathers: And do you not know that you are (each) an Eve? The sentence of God on this sex of yours lives in this age: the guilt of necessity must live too. You are the devil's gateway; you are the unsealer of that (forbidden) tree:... | |
| William E. Phipps - 2004 - 306 ˹éÒ
...acid denunciation: "Do you not know that each of you is also an Eve? . . . You are the devil's door; you are the unsealer of that forbidden tree, you are the first deserter of the divine law, you are the one who persuaded him whom the devil was too weak to attack How easily you destroyed man, the image... | |
| Iva E. Carruthers, Frederick D. Haynes, Jeremiah A. Wright (Jr.) - 2005 - 202 ˹éÒ
...century Ternillian wrote that women are the devil's gateway. He addressed women, asking, Do you not know that you are each an Eve? The sentence of God on this...deserter of the divine law. You are she who persuaded him who the devil was not valiant enough to attack on account of your dessert — that is death. Even the... | |
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