On the Origin of the World · 19 of 28

Eve Gives Life to Adam

1.After the day of rest, Sophia dispatched her daughter Zoe, called Eve, as a teacher, so that she could make the soulless Adam stand up, so that those whom he would beget could become vessels of light.

2.[When] Eve saw her male companion lying prostrate, she had compassion on him, and she said: “Adam, live!

3.Stand up on the earth!”

4.Her utterance straightaway was fulfilled in act, because Adam, after standing up, speedily opened his eyes.

5.When he beheld her, he said: “You will be called ‘Mother of the Living,’ because you are the one who has given me life.”