Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1880 — Man and Woman. [ARTICLE]

Man and Woman.

The following beautiful passage is from “ Henry’s Commentary on the Bible “Adam was first formed, then Eve, and she was made of the man, and for the man, all of which are urged as reasons for humility, modesty, silence and submissiveness of that sex in general, and particularly the subjection and reverence which wives owe to their husbands. Yet man being made last of the creation, as the best and most excellent of all, Eve being made after Adam, and out of him, put an honor upon that sex, as the glory of the man. If the man is the head, she is the crown, a crown to her husband, the crown to the visible creation. The man was dust refined, but the woman was dust doubly refined, one remove further from the earth. Woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not out of his head, to rule him, nor out of his feet, to be trampled upon by him ; but out of his side, to be equal with him ; under his arm, to be protected ; and near his heart, to be beloved. ”