And the Lord God built the rib which he took from Adam into a woman: and brought her to Adam. And Adam said: This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man. Wherefore a man shall leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be two in one flesh Gn 2
and thou shalt be under thy husband' s power, and he shall have dominion over thee.Gn 3
"The woman is not a “replica” of the man; she comes directly from the creative act of God. It is the fact that – always in parable – God formed the woman while the man slept, emphasizing precisely that she is not in any way a creature of man, but of God. It suggests too, that to find the woman – we could say, to find the love of the woman – the man must first dream of her and then find her. In his General Audience, Pope Francis continued his reflection on the family, beginning with the story of the creation of man in Genesis. The Pope repeats the story of the solitude of the first man, and his joy a discovering the woman, who is a part of himself. God’s confidence in them is full and generous, but th ...". Pope Francis The Heretic
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