Why did God create Eve from Adam’s rib?
Q237 · The Wondrous Creator, the Guardian of the World
First : so that she should not feel like a stranger to him, since she is from his flesh and bone.
Second : that both Adam and Eve might feel that each of them needs the other.
Third : that they both might experience love towards one another.
455 Ephrem the Syrian, Hymns on Paradise , trans., Sebastian P. Brock, (St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1990), 6.9: p. 112.
456 Ephrem the Syrian, Hymns on Paradise , trans., Sebastian P. Brock, (St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1990), 8.9: p. 134.
457 Ephrem the Syrian, Hymns on Paradise , trans., Sebastian P. Brock, (St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1990), 3:13: p. 95.