And the man said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for out of man she was taken.”
Adam could not have known the woman came from his own body by mere conjecture; God must have revealed it to him, either by word or secret inspiration. The deep sleep served only to spare him pain, not to hide the origin of his wife from him. When he says 'this is now bone of my bones,' those emphatic words express his recognition that here at last stands the companion he needs.
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Eve was made of Adam and for him, which Scripture uses to teach her modest subjection; yet being formed last, as the finest of creation, she is his crown, refined one remove further from the earth. Adam slept peacefully while God provided her, casting his care on his Maker, so must we rest in God, and He will work all for good.
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Commenting on Genesis 2:21-25
Adam knew she was made from his rib and flesh, either awake when she was formed, or through divine revelation impressed upon his mind, or revealed to him in the ecstatic trance itself. When he calls her 'woman' because taken from 'man,' he marks the sole time such creation occurs; hereafter all mankind descends through generation, not fashioning.
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