## Adam's Wife Had Two Names
Before the Great Rebellion:
> And Adam said, This [is] now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called **Woman**, _because she was taken out of Man_.
[Gen 2:23](https://blb.sc/004BAF)
After the Great Rebellion--and more importantly, after the seed-promise (protoevangelion):
> And Adam called his wife's name **Eve**; _because she was the mother of all living_.
[Gen 3:20](https://blb.sc/002UbY)
Meredith Kline pointed out that for Adam to rename his wife--whose sin had plunged him and all their posterity into a state of sin and misery--for him to rename her "Eve," that is, "the mother of life [or of all living]," was a statement of faith. It was Adam's response to the 'seed promise' of Genesis 3:15 that, though they must be exiled/excommunicated, God would sovereigntly "put enmity [back] between her seed and the seed of the serpent." On the vertical plane, it was Adam saying, "I believe you." On the horizontal plane, it can even be seen as an act of forgiveness and reconcilation between husband and wife. A new beginning, a new start, symbolized by a new name. That's a theme we see over and over again in Scripture, all the way through to The Revelation.
#Christian #catholic #Reformed #Presbyterian #grownostr
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