Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily III/Chapter 22
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Chapter XXII.—Male and Female.
“But a companion was created along with him, a female nature, much differing from him, as quality from substance, as the moon from the sun, as fire from light. She, as a female ruling the present world as her like,[1] was entrusted to be the first prophetess, announcing prophecy with all amongst those born of woman.[2] But the other, as the son of man, being a male, prophesies better things to the world to come as a male.