Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Job 14:1; 1 Corinthians 14:34. Who should have thought, that under this sentence of the woman so much grace was hid. The Church, which our first mother might here be said to represent, is set forth in all the scriptures as having an unceasing desire after Jesus, her Ishi: that is, her husband. Isaiah 26:8. And Jesus after his Church: Song of Solomon 7:10. So that beheld in this point of view, this sentence of the woman is productive, in after ages, of much mercy. I venture in this place to add, what appears to me to be the real sense of that expression, in Paul's writings: The woman being deceived was in the transgression. Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing. 1 Timothy 2:14-15. By her childbearing of the promised seed, that individual child-bearing of the man Christ Jesus.