The Sacred Page: Genesis 3:15

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Thursday, March 25, 2004

Genesis 3:15

Why does the Vulgate of the Catholics have "...and she shall crush your head..." while the Hebrew and the Greek have "...and he shall crush your head..."? Was Jerome trying to inject into the passage a Marian connotation that it did not have? Answer: Jerome wanted to inject the Hebrew genius into... Sign in to see full entry.

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