Why are there different translations of Genesis 3:15, some indicating that the womans seed will crush the serpents head, and others that it is His Mother herself will do it?
After the story of the Fall and of the punishment to be inflicted on sinful mankind, Almighty God curses the serpent and promises the Redeemer, seed of the woman, that is of the Blessed Virgin Mary, saying that He will place enmities between the serpent and the woman, and between his seed and the womans seed: “She will crush your head and you will lie in wait for her heel.” Such is the translation of the Vulgate (ipsa), namely that she will crush the serpents head, as confirmed by the translator, St. Jerome, in his writings. Scripture scholars point out that the Greek text of the Septuaginta, and all the original Hebrew manuscripts except two, state that it is he, that is the seed of the woman, who will crush the serpents head. How can this be, you might think, since the Council of Trent guaranteed that the translation of the Vulgate is without error? How could St. Jerome have made such an obvious error? Of course, there is no error at all, and St. Jerome deliberately translated it ind
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