jc95842:
The seed of the woman (which is Eve) is plausibly the Lord Jesus Christ, RC however speculate that the woman was Mary, that’s not warranted by the text. For in Gen 3:16, the LORD also said, “Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.”
Why is it that the RCs cut portions of the scripture (v.15) and ignore the rest (v.16). Surely the LORD said both v.15 and v.16 to the same woman? What right has the RCs to pervert or reduce the scripture?
Gen 3:15 says
“I will put enmity between you
and the woman, and between your seed
and her seed; he shall bruise your
head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
1.) Jesus called Mary “woman”, many times,which can’t mean disrespect, for Jesus is God and never sinned. Thus Jesus is connecting Gen 3:15, His mother Mary, and Rev 12:1 as the same person since Revelations 12:1 calls the mother of Jesus “the woman”
2.) “I will put enmity between you and the woman”
Enmity means total, absolute opposition. This can hardly be Eve, who was a sinner.
It would have to be Mary, who as the Mother of God, would arouse enmity, and who as sinless, would arouse more enmity.
That enmity is clearly shown in Revelations 12, as Satan tried to kill Mary. Satan never tried to kill Eve, who cooperated with him.
3.) “between your seed” (the children of the devil, all those who give into sin) and “her seed” (Jesus) and “on the rest of her offspring, on those who keep the commandments of God” (Rev 12:17)
The seed of Eve did not keep the commandments of God. Her first born son killed her second born son, Abel.
The seed of Mary, was Jesus, who was sinless, and on the rest of her offspring, on those who keep the commandments of God"
4.) Gen 3:15 Says specifically says that “the woman” was NOT the seed of the devil, for it does not include “the woman” as part of “your seed”, whereas Eve certainly was part of his seed.
5.)In the bible, “seed” always the man’s seed, sperm, the husband’s seed, and the father’s seed. Never to the children of women.
But, since Jesus had no human father and Mary did not conceive with a human seed, God’s going to elevate that “woman” and give to her a seed (Jesus Christ our redeemer) through which the serpent’s head will be crushed.
6.) “he shall bruise your head” A more accurate translation is “crush your head”. The pronoun “he” is ambiguous and can be translated “she”, as St. Jerome did. Thus, “she shall crush your head”
In Luke, Mary is called “blessed are you among women”. The only other place that others are called “blessed of women” are the two Old Testament women who slayed the enemies of Israel, one, Jael, who did so by crushing the head of the enemy with a wooden stake.
Jud 5:24 "Most blessed of women be Ja’el,
5:26 “She put her hand to the tent peg and her right hand to the
workmen’s mallet; she struck Sis’era a blow, she crushed his head, she shattered and pierced his temple.”
Thus, Mary is called “blessed among women” to show she is the fulfillment of the Old Testament type who will crush the head of the enemy of Israel, who is Satan.
Cardinal Newman points clearly that “the only passage where the Serpent is directly identified with evil spirit (the Devil himself) occurs in the twelfth chapter of the Apocalypse; now it is observable that the recognition when made is found in the course of a vision of a “woman clothed with sun and the moon under her feet” thus two Women are brought into contrast with each other. . . . . . .If then there is reason for thinking that this mystery at the close of Scripture record answers to the mystery in the beginning of it, and that “the woman” mentioned in both passages is one and the same, then she can be none other than St. Mary, thus introduced prophetically to our notice immediately on the transgression of Eve”
