Why Eve Was More Courageous Than Adam

Why Eve Was More Courageous Than Adam

Why did the serpent not attack the man, rather than the woman? You say he went after her because she was the weaker of the two.

On the contrary. In the transgression of the commandment, she showed herself to be the stronger... For she alone stood up to the serpent. She ate from the tree, but with resistance and dissent and after being dealt with perfidiously.

But Adam partook of the fruit given by the woman, without even beginning to make a fight, without a word of contradiction - a perfect demonstration of consummate weakness and a cowardly soul. The woman, moreover, can be excused; she wrestled with a demon and was thrown. But Adam will not be able to find an excuse... he had personally received the commandment from God.

☦︎ St. Irenaeus, 2nd Century

Smashing of the Church at Easter Night by Ilya Glazunov

Thinking about being in church makes me want to lay on the floor and cry it is home I’m home finally I’m home

Studenica monastery, central Serbia, July of 1931. Photo by Slovene ethnographer Matija Murko.