For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. (1 Corinthians 15.21-22)
This may beg the question, who is the new Eve then?
That would be Mary.
The Bishop of Lyon and last known living connection to the apostles, having been taught by Polycarp and heard John the Evangelist speak; St. Irenaeus of Lyons says thus:
W]hat is joined together could not otherwise be put asunder than by inversion of the process by which these bonds of union had arisen; so that the former ties be cancelled by the latter… […] it was that the knot of Eve’s disobedience was loosed by the obedience of Mary. For what the virgin Eve had bound fast through unbelief, this did the virgin Mary set free through faith. (Against Heresies, III.22.4, A.D. 180)
For just as [Eve] was led astray by the word of an angel, so that she fled from God when she had transgressed His word; so did [Mary], by an angelic communication, receive the glad tidings that she should sustain God, being obedient to His word. And if the former did disobey God, yet the latter was persuaded to be obedient to God, in order that the Virgin Mary might become the patroness of the virgin Eve.
And thus, as the human race fell into bondage to death by means of a virgin, so is it rescued by a virgin; virginal disobedience having been balanced in the opposite scale by virginal obedience. (Against Heresies, V.19.1, A.D. 180)
Biblical proof for this can be seen when Jesus Christ began his ministry (John 2:4) and when he concluded it. (John 19:26)
Mary was called "woman" just as Eve was called "woman" (Gen. 2:22)
The fruit of Mary's womb (Luke 1:42) was put back on the tree (the Cross).
