Craig

A slightly squirmy problem for “the woman” in v14 not being Eve is that we really need Eve to be there to properly complete Paul’s thought. We want to refer to Eve’s deception from this passage but it is not there any more! We want Paul to have said “Adam was not the one deceived; it was Eve. The woman in Ephesus is just like Eve- she is deceived and has become a sinner.” So we have to insert the thought about Eve as understood, (or mix Eve and the Ephesian woman both into the words somehow) when Paul doesn’t actually say this. With Cheryl’s 2006 view (I hope I am correct in saying this), this is not a problem.