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Book Four — the creation of the first human beings

A DISPUTATION ON THE FORMATION OF EVE FROM ADAM

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A DISPUTATION ON THE FORMATION OF EVE FROM ADAM.1

DISPVTATIO DE FORMATIONE EVAE EX ADAMO.

VERVM enimuerò, super hac historia procreationis Euae ex Adamo, nonnullae tractandae sunt quaestiones, iucundae cognitu, nec planè faciles explicatu.
But indeed, upon this history of the procreation of Eve from Adam, some questions must be treated — pleasant to know, and not quite easy to explain.2

Translator’s notes

  1. New disputation heading. ↩
  2. Decorated initial 'V.' Programmatic preface to the disputation. ↩

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Benito Pererius, S.J., “A DISPUTATION ON THE FORMATION OF EVE FROM ADAM,” in Commentaries and Disputations on Genesis, Volume I, English translation, Mind of the Church, https://mindofthechurch.com/works/perera-genesis-1/105-a-disputation-on-the-formation-of-eve/.

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