Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man he made into a woman, and he brought her to the man. Gen. 2:22
Adam was formed first, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression. 1 Tim. 2:13-14
God had formed Eve into a wife for him out of his rib. . . . He did this lest it would be supposed that one God made the man and another God made the woman. Therefore, He made them both. And God made the woman together with the man, not only so that thereby the mystery of God’s sole government might be displayed, but also so that their mutual love might be greater. Theophilus (c. 180, E), 2.105
This Eve, on account of her having been deceived in the beginning by the serpent, became the author of sin. Theophilus (c. 180, E), 2.105
But Eve was disobedient. For she did not obey when as yet she was a virgin. Although she did, indeed, have a husband, Adam, she was nevertheless still a virgin. For in Paradise “they were both naked, and were not ashamed,” inasmuch as they had been created a short time previously and had no understanding of the procreation of children. For it was necessary that they should first come to adult age, and then multiply from that time onward. Having become disobedient, she was made the cause of death, both to herself and to the entire human race. Irenaeus (c. 180, E/W), 1.455
That deception was done away with, by which that virgin Eve (who was already espoused to a man) was unhappily misled. [Its overturning] was happily announced by means of the truth through the angel to the virgin Mary, who was [espoused] to a man. . . . And if Eve did disobey God, yet Mary was persuaded to be obedient to God. This was in order that the virgin Mary might become the advocate of the virgin Eve. And thus, as the human race fell into bondage to death by means of a virgin, so is it rescued by a virgin. Irenaeus (c. 180, E/W), 1.547
She did not endure to have been met alone. Instead, in the presence of Adam, not yet her husband, not yet bound to lend her his ears, she was impatient to keep silent. So she made him the transmitter of that which she had imbibed from the Evil One. Tertullian (c. 200, W), 3.710
For Adam was formed first, and the woman came far behind him, for Eve was formed later. Her flesh was for a long time without specific form. Yet, she was even then herself a living being—for I should regard her at that time in [Adam’s] soul as even a portion of Adam. Besides, God’s breath would have enlivened her as well, if there had not been in the woman a transmission from Adam of his soul also as well as of his flesh. Tertullian (c. 210, W), 3.217
Furthermore, if Eve is intended by the apostle to refer to the church, it is not surprising that Cain, who was born of Eve, and everyone after him . . . should be types of the church. For, in a pre-eminent sense, they are all descended from the church. Origen (c. 225, E), 4.371