Man [lit. Adam] imposed corruption on woman
when she came forth from him;
today she has repaid him—she who bore for him
the Savior. (Hymns on the Nativity 1:14, as found in Kathleen E.
McVey, trans., Ephrem the Syrian: Hymns [Classics of Western
Spirituality; New York: Paulist Press, 1989], 65)
