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What the Fathers say

Genesis 3:16

Western Saints

Jerome

I will multiply your sorrows and your groanings. For sorrow and groaning, it has pains and conception in Hebrew. And for your conversion. Regarding the conversion of Aquila, the society: Symmachus transferred the desire or impulse.

Hebrew Questions on Genesis ↗

Bede

He also said to the woman: "I will greatly multiply your sorrows and your conceptions. In pain you will bring forth your children." These words, spoken figuratively and prophetically, are much more properly understood as referring to the woman of God. …

Commentary on Genesis (Hexaemeron) ↗

Bonaventure

For the woman the punishment was doubled, because there was inflicted upon her the penalty of manifold hardships in conception, the penalty of pains in childbirth, and also the penalty of subjection to the man in married life. Since from the woman sin took its beginning, therefore her punishment is doubled. …

Breviloquium, Part 3, Chapter 4 ↗