06 July 2004

woman=dust double refined

REFLECTIONS: Classic & Contemporary Excerpts - Christianity Today Magazine: "If man is the head, she [woman] is the crown, a crown to her husband, the crown of visible creation. The man was dust refined, but the woman was dust double-refined.Matthew Henry's Commentary"

A good supplementary cpmment to the one about woman being th epinnalce of creation having been created last. I always like these comments as they disrupt the more usual androcentric readings with something like irrefutablility for those who take certain approaches to the Bible.

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