And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
I would desire the Reader to pause over this verse and compare it with Genesis 2:23. In that place, our first father called his wife (Ishak) Woman; meaning, that as the name Adam, signifies earth; so, Woman, signifies part of the same perishing materials. If, therefore, by this new name of (Evah, or Eve) which signifies life, as a mother, Adam meant an allusion to that reviving promise, (Genesis 3:15) as the mother of our Lord, after the flesh, it forms a most illustrious instance of faith, in the promised redemption; for it proves that he believed God, and looked upon Eve, as the mother of Him who was to come, as the Life and Light of men. And if it was by God's appointment was it not a sign or seal of the promise, as God did by Abraham and Sarah; see Genesis 17:15; Genesis 17:15.