For Luke, the new exodus begins in Jerusalem and ends in heaven.

Just as Benjamin is the “beloved (Greek ēgapēmenos) of the LORD” (Deuteronomy 33:12), so John is the “disciple whom Jesus loved (Greek ēgapa)” (John 19:26).

For Epiphanius, therefore, the Collyridians were committing idolatry by offering the sacrificial bread of the Eucharist to Mary.

New Testament scholar John Dominic Crossan: “Implicit in the title ‘woman’ is that her full destiny is to be the ‘woman’ of Genesis 3:15.”27

In traditional Protestantism, worship is largely centered on doxology: prayer and songs of praise.62 There is no ministerial priesthood, and therefore no offering of sacrifice. For Catholics and Orthodox Christians, however, worship consists above all in the offering of the Eucharist.63 And the Eucharist is always offered to God alone.

it’s important to remember that in the book of Genesis, Eve is called “Eve” only once; she is called “woman” eleven times.

I would suggest…that this figure [the “woman” of Revelation 12] is both the literal mother of the male child Jesus, and also the female image of the people of God.34

She is also the queen mother of the Messiah’s kingdom.22

before her pain came she was delivered of a man-child” (Isaiah 66:7)…