
Through his passion, death and resurrection Jesus bears the curses triggered by Adam and Eve at the dawn of creation.
Because of their sin, God warns Adam and Eve that
-- childbirth will be painful (Gen. 3:10).
-- relationships will be marred by sin (Gen. 3:10)
-- work will be toil; it will not always be fruitful but bring forth
-- thorns and thistles (Gen. 3:18)
-- labor will be carried out with difficulty, in sweat (Gen. 3:19)
-- physical death is inevitable (3:19)
-- they are banished from his presence in the garden (Gen 3:24)
Jesus bears the curses redemptively as the New Adam.
-- Jesus goes into a garden (Mt. 26:36-46) and sweats drops of blood (Lk. 22:44).
-- Jesus is given a crown of thorns (Mt. 27:29) and is stripped naked (Mt. 27:31).
-- Jesus goes to the cross, called the Tree of Life in the early church (cf. Acts 5:30).
-- Falling into the sleep of death, his Bride, the Church, is formed from his side (Jn. 19:26-35).
-- Jesus appears in His resurrected body, announcing the new creation to a “woman” in a garden (Jn. 20:11-18).
2 comments:
Thank you for this. Very insightful.
(I'm DRE for a Catholic parish in Greensboro, NC).
I've heard and read some about similar connections between Mary and Eve, can you go into those connections sometime? I think that would be great. Thanks (by the way, I'm loving the blog so far).
Josh
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