10 A secret was concocted between Eve
and the serpent,
and Adam was not aware as perdition entered in.
Without a man, Death entered on earth
and because its beginning was with a women,
it was right that from a woman good things too should have
their beginning. (Jacob of Serugh, “qom men qabro yohubo d-nuḥomo,” in The
Stanzaic Poems of Jacob of Serugh: A Collection of His Madroshe and Sughyotho
[trans. Sebastian P. Brock; Texts from Christian Late Antiquity 72; Piscataway,
N.J. Gorgias Press, 2022], 232)
