“"How is it," one could say, "that Scripture calls a helper she who was a hindrance? In fact it says, 'Let us make a helper like him.' " And I would ask you: how can she be a helper who deprived the man of such security and drove him out of that wonderful existence in paradise, casting him into the tumult of the presen…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — ON VIRGINITY 46:1-3
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24Of the woman came the beginning of sin, and through her we all die.
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In context
22A woman, if she maintain her husband, is full of anger, impudence, and much reproach.
23A wicked woman abateth the courage, maketh an heavy countenance and a wounded heart: a woman that will not comfort her husband in distress maketh weak hands and feeble knees.
— Sirach 25:24 —
25Give the water no passage; neither a wicked woman liberty to gad abroad.
26If she go not as thou wouldest have her, cut her off from thy flesh, and give her a bill of divorce, and let her go.