The word, Ave, when reversed, becomes Eva, another form of Eve.
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Written by Bob Stanley, March 11, 2000
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If you have read another of my posted files on this
website called "Types and Shadows", you
would have learned that the Old Testament prefigures people, objects, and
happenings of the New Testament. As an example, the O.T. "types"
of Jesus Christ are numerous, Adam, Abraham, Joseph, Moses, and David just
to name a few. The O.T. "type" is
always inferior to the N.T. reality, or "antitype",
and sometimes it is the opposite. Adam is a "type"
of Jesus Christ, and Jesus is even called "The Last Adam" in
1Cor 15:45.
So now we have a first and second Adam. However Adam had Eve, the mother
of all humanity. Typology of Scripture would not be viable unless it "typed"
a New Eve as well as a New Adam. The purpose of this file is to show that
the New Eve, Mary, also had many "types"
in the O.T..
Eve, the O.T."Type".........................Mary,
the N.T. "Antitype"
Created without original sin, Gen 2:22-25.........Created
without original sin, Luke 1:28,42 *1
There was a virgin, Gen 2:22-25.......................There
is a virgin, Luke 1:27-34
There was a tree, Gen 2:16-17..........................There was a cross
made from a tree, Matt 27:31-35
There was a fallen angel, Gen 3:1-13................There was a loyal angel,
Luke 1:26-38
A satanic serpent tempted her, Gen 3:4-6...........A satanic dragon threatened
her, Rev 12:4-6,13-17
There was pride, Gen 3:4-7...............................There was humility,
Luke 1:38
There was disobedience, Gen 3:4-7....................There was obedience,
Luke 1:38
There was a fall, Gen 3:16-20...........................There was redemption,
John 19:34
Death came through Eve, Gen 3:17-19..............Life Himself came through
Mary, John 10:28
She was mentioned in Genesis 3:2-22................She was mentioned in
Genesis 3:15
Could not approach the tree of life Gen 3:24......Approached the "Tree
of Life", John 19:25
An angel kept her out of Eden, Gen 3:24............An angel protected her,
Rev 12:7-9
Prophecy of the coming of Christ, Gen 3:15.......The Incarnation of Christ,
Luke 2:7
Firstborn was a man child, Gen 4:1...................Firstborn was a man
child, Luke 2:7, Rev 12:5
Firstborn became a sinner, Gen 4:1-8................Firstborn was the Savior,
Luke 2:34
The mother of all the living, Gen 3:20................The spiritual mother
of all the living, John 19:27
Returned to dust, Gen 3:19................................Taken to Heaven,
Rev 11:19,12:1
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1. See "
The Immaculate Conception
" on this website.
What did the Church Fathers have to say about the "New Eve"?
Saint Justin the Martyr, in about 155 A.D., wrote:
"'...and that He became Man by the Virgin so that the course which
was taken by disobedience in the beginning through the agency of the serpent,
might be also the very course by which it would be put down. For Eve, a
virgin and undefiled, conceived the word of the serpent, and bore disobedience
and death. But the Virgin Mary received faith and joy when the angel Gabriel
announced to her the glad tidings that the Spirit of the Lord would come
upon her and the powers of the Most High would overshadow her, for which
reason the Holy One being born of her would be called the Son of God. And
she replied: 'Be it done unto me according to thy word.'"
Dialogue with Trypho (100) (Jurgens-141)
Saint Irenaeus wrote this between 180-199 A.D.:
"Consequently, then, Mary the Virgin is found to be obedient, saying:
"Behold, O Lord, your handmaid; be it done to me according to your
word." Eve, however, was disobedient; and when yet a virgin, she did
not obey.... having become disobedient, was made the cause of death for
herself and for the whole human race; so also Mary, betrothed to a man
but nevertheless still a virgin, being obedient, was made the cause of
salvation for herself and for the whole human race.... Thus, the knot of
Eve's disobedience was loosed by the obedience of Mary. What the virgin
Eve had bound in unbelief, the Virgin Mary loosed through faith."
Against Heresies (3,22,4) (Jurgens-224)
Tertullian wrote this between 208 and 212 A.D.:
"For it was while Eve was still a virgin that the word of the devil
crept in to erect an edifice of death. Likewise, through a Virgin, the
Word of God was introduced to set up a structure of life. Thus, what had
been laid waste in ruin by this sex, was by the same sex re-established
in salvation. Eve had believed the serpent; Mary believed Gabriel. That
which the one destroyed by believing, the other, by believing, set straight."
The Flesh of Christ (17,5) (Jurgens-358)
Saint Augustine wrote in 396 A.D.:
"Our Lord Jesus Christ, however, who came to liberate mankind, in
which both males and females are destined to salvation, was not averse
to males, for He took the form of a male, nor to females, for of a female
He was born. Besides, there is a great mystery here: that just as death
comes to us through a woman, Life is born to us through a woman; that the
devil, defeated, would be tormented by each nature, feminine and masculine,
since he had taken delight in the defection of both."
Christian Combat (22,24) (Jurgens-1578)
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