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Marg, that does make Eve the comparison for ‘the woman’ and as a woman who has been deceived. Putting the whole section into place, then the deceived woman needs to learn in the manner of a student, and live a holy life with her husband who may not have been deceived.

I still think the reference to bearing children has something to do with the false gnostic idea that for a woman to be spiritual she needs to live like a man and not bear children. That may have been one of the things the woman was deceived in. Verse 15 may even be a double intention of referring both to ‘the child’ who was certainly a spiritual happening and that the woman can be spiritual while bearing children.