Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa. Talking about the dignity and superiority of the female sex (№ 275592)

As evidence of his point of view Heinrich Agrippa argued from the literary works of philosophers and the Church fathers, and even from the Bible. For example, it was argued that the woman is the crown of God's creation, since God created woman, and didn't create anything. Only woman God made flesh and man, like everything else - from the ashes. God gave a woman greater ability to speech, because speech is a gift of God to man. When God forbids man to eat of the fruit of knowledge, the woman still was not at that time established and, therefore, innocent. God hid the woman's nature, while the male - exposed, so punishing gamehouseplay...