Galatians 4:4

CMI has a long article about Jesus born under the law.

Jesus is born under the law: The fulfillment of God’s redemptive plan at Christmas
By Nicos Kaloyirou (Νίκος Καλογήρου) | Published 23 Dec, 2025
https://creation.com/en/articles/gods-redemptive-plan-at-christmas

In it, we see Genesis 3:15 applied to Jesus, as the seed of promise.

We also see Galatians 4:4. And the part about a woman (yes, there is one), is applied to Jesus:

The phrase “born of a woman” establishes Jesus’s full humanity.

Nicos, aren't we missing someone?

Here are the two passages I noted as incompletely commented on:

I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel
[Genesis 3:15]

(Some Bibles, including some not Protestant, like the LXX, have "he shall crush" and "for her heel", this is the translation of St. Jerome than translated to English).

But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent his Son, made of a woman, made under the law
[Galatians 4:4]

There is a question Catholics sometimes get, namely why we think Mary is the woman of Genesis 3:15. Well, one answer is of course Jesus called Her "Woman" at the beginning and at the end of His public life. In Cana and on Calvary (John 2:4, John 19:26). But there is another one in the NT thinking of Mary as The Woman. St. Paul.

He says Jesus is the seed of the Woman, so he says Mary is the Woman of that Seed.

If Satan is the serpent and "enmities" is "complete enmity" and Mary is the Woman, what does this say about Her?

She didn't become Satan's enemy only by giving birth to God in the flesh, in full humanity, as Nicos rightly notes. No, She was called "blessed among women" before the pregnancy. If we look at Jael (and at Judith) we see this is a military award, a weak woman destroying an exceptionally strong and dangerous enemy of Israel. Feel free to double-check the phrase if it is found applied to other women in other circumstances. Ruth (wife of an old husband) and Abigail (holding back the King from destroying an Israelite) are also called "blessed" but not "blessed among women". I think each of these blessed women has sth to say about Mary, and the two who were called "blessed among women" say She had destroyed an enemy of Israel. Who except Satan? Our Lady got that part when Elisabeth added "and blessed is the fruit of thy womb" ... She was not just the Mother of God, as the angel had told Her, She was the sinless mother of a sinless child, defeaters of sin. Because that is the one way in which a mortal can "kill" the chief of demons. Not sinning.

Eve and Adam had given Satan victory. Mary and Jesus were giving God victory, and mankind victory before God, against Satan. But Adam and Eve, having believed the promise, were saved, waiting for Jesus in the Limbus of the Fathers. It's their day today.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
Sts. Adam and Eve, Christmas Vigil
24.XII.2025

Vigilia Nativitatis Domini nostri Jesu Christi.

Saint Adam and Saint Eve (First Age of the world)
Dec 24, 2000 The Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
https://catholicism.org/saint-adam-and-saint-eve-first-age-of-the-world.html

PS, St. Paul also praises Mary in 1 Timothy 2:11, since Luke 1:38 speaks of Her submission and Luke 2:19 and 2:51 speaks of Her silence in learning./HGL