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When Eve was brought unto Adam, he became filled with the Holy Spirit, and gave her the most sanctified, the most glorious of appellations. He called her Eva, that is to say, the Mother of All. He did not style her wife, but simply mother,—mother of all living creatures. In this consists the glory and the most precious ornament of woman.

When Eve was brought unto Adam, he became filled with the Holy Spirit, and gave her the most sanctified, the most glorious of appellations. He called her Eva, that is to say, the Mother of All. He did not style her wife, but simply mother,—mother of all living creatures. In this consists the glory and the most precious ornament of woman.

Approximate author period: c. 1514 AD · renaissance

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Martin Luther
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Approximate author period: c. 1514 AD · renaissance
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Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)

Page 179 · printed citation: Luther · subject: Mother

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