And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
Ver. 20. And Adam called his wife's name Eve.] That is, Life, or Living. Not, per antiphrasim, as some would have it; much less out of pride and stomach, in contempt of the divine sentence denounced against them both, that they should surely die, as Rupertus would have it: but because she was to be mother of all living, whether a natural or a spiritual life; and likewise for a testimony of his faith in, and thankfulness for, that lively and lifegiving oracle. a Gen 3:15
The mother of all living.] "Have we not all," as "one father," Mal 2:10 so, one mother? did we not all tumble in a belly? "why do we then deal treacherously every man against his brother?" Mal 2:10 This one consideration should charm down our rising and boiling spirits one against another, as it did Abraham's. Gen 13:8
a λογια ζωντα, i.e., ζωοποιουντα .