1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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Genesis 2:23

And Adam said: *This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of man.

1 Corinthians 11:9.; Ephesians 5:31.

Of my flesh. God did not, therefore, take a rib without flesh, nor perhaps did he replace flesh without a rib in Adam's side, though St. Augustine thinks he did. These words of Adam are attributed to God, Matthew 19., because they were inspired by him. --- Woman. As this word is derived from man, so in Hebrew Isha (or Asse) comes from Iish or Aiss; Latin vira woman, and virago comes from vir. (Haydock) --- But we do not find this allusion so sensible in any of the Oriental languages, as in the Hebrew, whence another proof arises of this being the original language. (Calmet)