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{{Quote|" ... woman was given to man, woman who was of small intelligence and who perhaps still lives more in accordance with the promptings of the inferior flesh than by superior reason. Is this why the apostle Paul does not attribute the image of God to her?"|''De Genesi ad literam Book 11.42}} | {{Quote|" ... woman was given to man, woman who was of small intelligence and who perhaps still lives more in accordance with the promptings of the inferior flesh than by superior reason. Is this why the apostle Paul does not attribute the image of God to her?"|''De Genesi ad literam Book 11.42}} | ||
{{Quote|"Watch out that she does not twist and turn you for the worse. What difference does it make whether it is in a wife or in a mother, it is still Eve the temptress that we must beware of in any woman."|Letter to Laetus (Letter 243.10)}} | {{Quote|"Watch out that she does not twist and turn you for the worse. What difference does it make whether it is in a wife or in a mother, it is still Eve the temptress that we must beware of in any woman."|''Letter to Laetus'' (Letter 243.10)}} | ||
==570–632: Muhammad== | ==570–632: Muhammad== | ||