The phrase “through a woman” would be likely
to give rise to the suspicion of mere transit in the generation, while
the phrase “of the woman” would satisfactorily indicate
that the nature was shared by the mother and the offspring. The
apostle was in no wise contradicting himself, but he shewed that the
words can without difficulty be interchanged. Since, therefore,
the term “from whom” is transferred to the identical
subjects in the case of which “through whom” is decided to
be properly used, with what consistency can these phrases be invariably
distinguished one from the other, in order that fault may be falsely
found with true religion?