Commenting on the special creation of Eve, Matthew Henry nearly 300 years ago wrote with quaint profundity that she was "not made out of his head to top him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be loved." Perhaps he got this idea from Peter Lombard who in about AD 1157, just before becoming Bishop of Paris, wrote in his Book of Sentences: "Eve was not taken from the feet of Adam to be his slave nor from his head to be his lord, but from his side to be his partner."
John Stott, Decisive Issues Facing Christians Today, p.263-264
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