definite article “the” before the word “childbearing” (tēs teknogonias). One must ask, “Which particular childbearing is meant?” especially since the verb is in the singular (“she will be saved”), and surely the answer is “Jesus, born of woman, born under the law” (as Gal 4:4 puts it). In other words, the curse on woman incurred in Eve is reversed through Mary. Human fallenness came through a woman, and so did human salvation. This was the view of many of the church fathers about this verse, not