After Adam and Eve ate the fruit from the tree forbidden to them in the Garden, God promised to send a Savior through the seed of a virgin.  “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).  Fr. George Leo Haydock, in his commentary on Scripture explains the prophecy in this verse: “She shall crush": Ipsa, the woman; so divers of the fathers read this place, conformably to the Latin: … [Read more...]