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God has made, as the two sides bind the whole body; for He made her neither from his front, so that the woman might not be superior to the man, nor from his back, so that the man might not be superior to the woman, but from the side, as being equal by nature; even if the man has precedence as the cause in time, yet not in nature itself. Furthermore, because the hand always covers and guards its own side, thus having fashioned the female from the male and the male from the earth, He proclaimed them both to be one flesh, from the structure of the two sides and by the fruit that springs from their union. For this reason the fornicator sins, alienating his own flesh and sowing a disordered fruit, but the adulterer is ranked with the murderer, as dividing the one flesh and working a murder. 3.48 Further. Perhaps someone might again be perplexed, saying: Why, when all the irrational animals were made male and female at the same time by God, was man alone not made at the same time as the female, but most alone, and then the female came into being later? Such a one will hear that since all the animals made by God were irrational and unable to know anything, and since all the angels were made at once as rational beings and knew in the particular events, I mean in the six days, the maker of the universe, it was necessary for man also, having been created rational by God and being the bond of all creation, to be taught the creator of the universe. 3.49 But since he did not exist before, but was made after all things, he was not able to know God either from the things made before him, or from himself, God was pleased not to bring forth the female from him at the same time as him, but later, so that he might know through this that He who brought forth this similar being from him also brought him forth. For this reason He also cast a trance upon him and he slept, so that when his side was removed without toil and without pain as in sleep through the grace of God he might receive a perception of what was happening and might praise the one who made it, confessing and saying: "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of her man." Since, therefore, the angels were made rational and were instructed about the Cause through the works done in the six days, it was necessary for man also to be instructed through the female and to learn that God is the creator of both himself and of the universe, especially having heard God say beforehand: "Let us make a helper for him like himself." The text 3.50 Then again on the seventh day, after revealing to Moses the whole creation of the world and deeming him worthy of such mystical visions, He then spoke with him, and giving him the law written on stone tablets by the finger of God and having made him wise in the experience of the letters and having glorified his face, he lets him descend from the mountain. 3.51 Then after these things He commands him to construct a tabernacle according to the pattern which he had seen on the mountain, being as it were a type of the whole world. He therefore made the tabernacle, wishing to imitate as much as possible the form of the world, thus: thirty cubits in length and ten in width, and placing a veil in the middle, he makes it two spaces, and the first was called the Holy Place, the second after the veil the Holy of Holies. The outer part was a type of this visible world, according to the divine Apostle, from the earth up to the firmament, in which there was a table in the northern part and upon the table twelve loaves, representing a type of the earth, having all kinds of fruits, one for each month, as it were twelve for the year. 3.52 And around the table in a circle a twisted wave-molding signifying the sea, the so-called Ocean, then also around this again in a circle a border of a handbreadth signifying the land beyond, where paradise is in the east, where also the ends of the first, vaulted heaven rest on all sides upon the ends of the earth. Then he also placed the lampstand in the southern part, shining towards the north, to the earth from the south; and seven lamps

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