You're listening to the Hard Men Podcast, reclaiming biblical masculinity in a world of softness. After the creation of his wife Adam receives her, Eve, and names her.

And Adam said, this is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called

woman, Isha, not Eve, because she was taken out of man. Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and they shall become one flesh.

Genesis 2.23 and 24.

As first 24 shows Adam and Isha were a paradigmatic couple.

They were not just any two individuals.

In this passage of Genesis, we are taught that Adam's reception of the woman and his naming of her were to be a pattern for all marriages to come.

Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother.

Now at this point Adam had not yet named his wife Eve.

Adam gave his wife two individual names. The first was Isha or woman because she was

taken out of man.

The second was chava, life bear, or as we said in English, Eve.

And Adam called his wife's name Eve, or chava, because she was the mother of all living, Genesis 320.

In both passages where she is named, it is clearly stated that her two names reveal truth

about her. The first reveals her dependence upon

man. She was taken out of man. The second reveals man's dependence upon her.

Every man since is her son.

Millennia later, the Apostle Paul teaches us that we are continually to remember these two truths

in our marriages.

Each wife is an Isha, and each wife is a chava.

Each is woman, and each is Eve.

God is the one who called our first parents by the collective name Adam.

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