Letter 259
To the same person.
Adam was molded, but Eve was built, so that God the Word might be revealed: from Mary he formed for himself the spotless body, and from the side that was pierced upon the cross he built his own bride, the Church.
AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek below for scholarly use.
Latin / Greek Original
Ὁ μὲν Ἀδὰμ πέπλασται, ἡ δὲ Εὔα ᾠκοδομήθη, ἵνα δειχθῇ Θεὸς Λόγος, ἐκ Μαρίας μὲν τὸ σῶμα τὸ ἄσπιλον ἀναπλάσας ἑαυτῷ, ἐκ δὲ τῆς νυγεῖσης ἐπὶ τοῦ σταυροῦ πλευρᾶς τὴν νύμφην ἑαυτοῦ τὴν Ἐκκλησίαν ᾠκοδόμησεν.
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- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.
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