Woman personifies wisdom. The creation of the Woman (here capitalized to denote “woman” as a holy title and office) was as God’s greatest gift to man. The Genesis language prefigured her role as a catalyst of salvation. Translated as “helpmate,” this word is only used elsewhere of God. The meaning is “as one who brings water to a man dying of thirst.” She isn’t the Savior, the Living Water, but she brings the Living Water!
That “woman” is a holy title and office carried through the female. This is paired with that male-only atoning priesthood to repair the Sin of Adam in Wisdom Ch.10.
"She preserved the first-formed father of the world when he alone had been created; And she raised him up from his fall, and gave him power to rule all things. But when the unjust man withdrew from her in his anger, he perished through his fratricidal wrath.
Woman is given the figure of the one who whispers in Adam’s ear to respond to God’s call to reconciliation, and she who was ignored in Cain’s blasphemous anger over Abel’s acceptable sacrifice. Wisdom is the Woman, later named “Eve.” Wisdom is indeed the “mother of all living” for to ignore her is death.
The Genesis language of “helpmate” show Woman as the catalyst for salvation. Woman is like that chemical that doesn’t enter into the reaction but triggers it. This is seen in the role of the Virgin Mary as fulfilling the Genesis 3:15, God’s curse upon Lucifer with the Woman. Christ exclusively used the word “woman” when speaking of His mother.
Today’s woman-despising neo-gnostic culture sees this holy term as a reproach! Gnostics make of “sophia” a divine in their paradigm that denigrates and despises woman. Here is the flattering destroyer that seeks to obliterate Satan and his seed’s foe of lasting enmity, the Woman and her Seed.
Christ derived His role of priest as the Second Adam, and His role of crushing Satan as the Seed of the Woman. All who “hear and obey” are Christ’s brothers and sisters who accept, with John, adoption into kinship with Christ through her. Jews account lineage through the mother. She is the Queen-Mother whose Seed is persecuted in Apocalpyse 12, and her “other seed” are also tormented.
Wisdom as feminine foreshadows the Blessed Virgin Mary’s spousal unity with divinity as Bride of the Holy Spirit, a role which demanded her Immaculate Conception. This intimacy is not divinity itself nor an obliteration of personhood within divinity as the Hindus teach. Christ’s Bride, the Church, will share such spousal unity and intimacy with Christ’s divinity.
Christ is “wisdom” and following Christ is “foolishness.” Using one verse to make of Christ the summation of the feminine direction of the use of “wisdom” or to ignore other Petrine writings pointing to the Blessed Virgin as fulfilling wisdom literature is…unwise. Wisdom is a gift of the Holy Spirit as Woman is God’s gift. The Blessed Virgin’s Immaculate Heart is that purity and power of a will united to God’s by which her catalytic “yes” to the Seed was given, bringing the Savior and victory over Lucifer and his seed. Her other seed must emulate her wise assent.
