The word, Ave, when reversed, becomes Eva, another form of Eve.
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Written by Bob Stanley, March 11, 2000
Updated December 7, 2006
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Ave Maria, the New Eve.
If you have read another of my posted files on
this website called "Types and Shadows", you
would have learned that the Old Testament prefigures people, objects,
and happenings of the New Testament. As an example, the O.T. "types" of Jesus Christ are numerous, Adam,
Abraham, Joseph, Moses, and David just to name a few. The O.T. "type" is always inferior to the N.T. reality,
or "antitype", and sometimes it is the
opposite. Adam is a "type" of Jesus
Christ, and Jesus is even called "The Last Adam" in 1Cor 15:45.
So now we have a first and second Adam. However Adam had Eve, the
mother of all humanity. Typology of Scripture would not be viable
unless it "typed" a New Eve as well as a
New Adam. The purpose of this file is to show that the New Eve, Mary,
also had many "types" in the O.T..
Eve, the O.T."Type".........................Mary, the N.T. "Antitype"
Created without original sin, Gen
2:22-25.........Created without original sin, Luke 1:28,42 *1
There was a virgin, Gen
2:22-25.......................There is a virgin, Luke 1:27-34
There was a tree, Gen 2:16-17..........................There was a
cross made from a tree, Matt 27:31-35
There was a fallen angel, Gen 3:1-13................There was a loyal
angel, Luke 1:26-38
A satanic serpent tempted her, Gen 3:4-6...........A satanic dragon
threatened her, Rev 12:4-6,13-17
There was pride, Gen 3:4-7...............................There was
humility, Luke 1:38
There was disobedience, Gen 3:4-7....................There was
obedience, Luke 1:38
There was a fall, Gen 3:16-20...........................There was
redemption, John 19:34
Death came through Eve, Gen 3:17-19..............Life Himself came
through Mary, John 10:28
She was mentioned in Genesis 3:2-22................She was mentioned in
Genesis 3:15
Could not approach the tree of life Gen 3:24......Approached the "Tree
of Life", John 19:25
An angel kept her out of Eden, Gen 3:24............An angel protected
her, Rev 12:7-9
Prophecy of the coming of Christ, Gen 3:15.......The Incarnation of
Christ, Luke 2:7
Firstborn was a man child, Gen 4:1...................Firstborn was a
man child, Luke 2:7, Rev 12:5
Firstborn became a sinner, Gen 4:1-8................Firstborn was the
Savior, Luke 2:34
The mother of all the living, Gen 3:20................The spiritual
mother of all the living, John 19:27
Returned to dust, Gen 3:19................................Taken to
Heaven, Rev 11:19,12:1
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1. Since Eve was
created without original sin as well as Adam, then the realities of
these Old Testament "types" had to be without original sin also. We
know that Jesus had no original sin, and so Mary, the New Testament
reality of Eve had to be without original sin also, or else she was
inferior to her "type". See " The Immaculate Conception
" on this website.
What did the Church Fathers have to say about the "New Eve"?
Saint Justin the Martyr, in about 155 A.D., wrote:
"'...and that He became Man by the Virgin so that the course which was
taken by disobedience in the beginning through the agency of the
serpent, might be also the very course by which it would be put down.
For Eve, a virgin and undefiled, conceived the word of the serpent, and
bore disobedience and death. But the Virgin Mary received faith and joy
when the angel Gabriel announced to her the glad tidings that the
Spirit of the Lord would come upon her and the powers of the Most High
would overshadow her, for which reason the Holy One being born of her
would be called the Son of God. And she replied: 'Be it done unto me
according to thy word.'"
Dialogue with Trypho (100) (Jurgens-141)
Saint Irenaeus wrote this between 180-199 A.D.:
"Consequently, then, Mary the Virgin is found to be obedient, saying:
"Behold, O Lord, your handmaid; be it done to me according to your
word." Eve, however, was disobedient; and when yet a virgin, she did
not obey.... having become disobedient, was made the cause of death for
herself and for the whole human race; so also Mary, betrothed to a man
but nevertheless still a virgin, being obedient, was made the cause of
salvation for herself and for the whole human race.... Thus, the knot
of Eve's disobedience was loosed by the obedience of Mary. What the
virgin Eve had bound in unbelief, the Virgin Mary loosed through
faith."
Against Heresies (3,22,4) (Jurgens-224)
Tertullian wrote this between 208 and 212 A.D.:
"For it was while Eve was still a virgin that the word of the devil
crept in to erect an edifice of death. Likewise, through a Virgin, the
Word of God was introduced to set up a structure of life. Thus, what
had been laid waste in ruin by this sex, was by the same sex
re-established in salvation. Eve had believed the serpent; Mary
believed Gabriel. That which the one destroyed by believing, the other,
by believing, set straight."
The Flesh of Christ (17,5) (Jurgens-358)
Saint Augustine wrote in 396 A.D.:
"Our Lord Jesus Christ, however, who came to liberate mankind, in which
both males and females are destined to salvation, was not averse to
males, for He took the form of a male, nor to females, for of a female
He was born. Besides, there is a great mystery here: that just as death
comes to us through a woman, Life is born to us through a woman; that
the devil, defeated, would be tormented by each nature, feminine and
masculine, since he had taken delight in the defection of both."
Christian Combat (22,24) (Jurgens-1578)
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