Genesis 3:20

20. Eve… the mother of all living The account of man’s original sin concludes with four statements too important and suggestive to have been accidental . The new naming of the woman, (comp . Genesis 2:23,) the first clothing, the expulsion from the garden of Eden, and the two sacred symbols placed at the gate, are full of significance . The name Eve, חוה , Hhavvah, from the intensive stem חיה , signifies life-spring, or quickener of life . Given in the very face of the death foreshadowed by the penal sentence, it seems to have arisen from Adam’s faith in the promise that the woman’s Seed should wound the serpent’s head . In Genesis 2:23 he named her Woman, in view of her origin; here he names her Eve, in view of her hopeful destiny.