With that being said, can we draw at least some inference from the Biblical text that Eve typified Mary? Actually, no.
The New Testament writers didn't regard Eve as a type of Mary. There are two primary issues that I intend to deal with in this posting:
1). Finding at least one specific instance of Eve typifying anyone or anything
2). Eve - Mary typology positing Mary as "the mother of us all"
For the first mention, one can't help but to not conclude Eve as a type of Mary in light of the Biblical comparison made between Eve and the church. Notice,
I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness; but indeed you are bearing with me. For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy; for I betrothed you to one husband, so that to Christ I might present you as a pure virgin. But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ. (2 Corinthians 11:1–3 NAS95)From this passage we can actually satisfy my aforementioned conundrum, namely, the split between a wife to a mother. Here, the apostle Paul informs us of the marriage between Christ and His church, and then compares that church to Eve. Paul betrothed the church to Christ, the second Adam, and then made mention to the church's Eve-like susceptibility. To make such a comparison yells typology between Eve and the church. Oddly enough, we can actually draw a conclusion on a doctrine of perpetual virginity from the text above; the church's, not Mary's.
The second issue is Mary being "the mother of us all". I'd be curious if the phrase "mother of us all" in any literal form or synonymous form would be found in the New Testament. There is.
“For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the bondwoman and one by the free woman. But the son by the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and the son by the free woman through the promise. This is allegorically speaking, for these women are two covenants: one proceeding from Mount Sinai bearing children who are to be slaves; she is Hagar. Now this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children. But the Jerusalem above is free; she is our mother.” (Galatians 4:22–26 NAS95)
So who actually holds a position of "mother of us all"? If we were forced to pick a specific person it would actually be Sarah, Abraham's wife. However, Paul's conclusion of who the "mother of us" is, is actually being confined to "the Jerusalem above".
St. John Crysostom offers his interpretation of what the "Jerusalem above" is:
Those therefore, who are born of her are not bondmen. Thus the type of the Jerusalem below was Hagar, as is plain from the mountain being so called; but of that which is above is the Church. Nevertheless he is not content with these types, but adds the testimony of Isaiah to what he has spoken. Having said that Jerusalem which is above “is our Mother,” and having given that name to the Church, he cites the suffrage of the Prophet in his favor,So it would actually seem very clear, Eve finds her typology in the bride of Christ, the church. And our mother is actually not Mary, but the church.
Ver. 27. “Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not, break forth and cry, thou that travailest not, for more are the children of the desolate than of her which hath the husband.” (Isa. 54:1.)1
Notes:
1). John Chrysostom, "Commentary of St. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, on the Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the Galatians", trans. Anonymous and Gross Alexander, in A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, First Series, Volume XIII: Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Thessalonians, Timothy, Titus, and Philemon ( ed. Philip Schaff;New York: Christian Literature Company, 1889), 34.
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