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Jesus as the New Eve? Mary as the New Adam?
Ephrem the Syrian (AD 307-373), Saint Ephrem’s Commentary on Tatian’s Diatessaron, Carmel McCarthy trans., Chapter II, Sections 2-3 (pp. 60-61)(footnotes omitted, brackets and italics are McCarthy’s): §2. [Mary] gave birth without [the assistance of] a man. Just as in the beginning Eve was born of Adam without intercourse, so too [in the case of] Joseph…
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There's Something about … Luigi Gambero
Luigi Gambero is one of the leading Mariologists of our time. His book, “Mary and the Fathers of the Church,” (Ignatius Press, 1999 based on the Italian original of 1991) is one of the more exhaustive treatments of the subject that one can find from a Roman Catholic perspective. Sorry to my younger readers for…