The creation of woman, therefore, marks the climax of God’s love for the human being he created. This passage also shows us man’s interiority: he is aware of his own aloneness. Although here loneliness is more a possibility and a fear rather than a real situation, we are being told that it is through awareness of being alone that man can appreciate the benefit of communion with others. 2:19–20. Like man, animals are created out of matter, but they are not said to have received from God the breath
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