Literatura do Segundo Templo sobre Gênesis 2:18

[1] “And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone, let us make for him a helper corresponding to him” (Gen. 2:18). Why, O prophet, is it not good that the man should be alone? Because, he says, it is good that the Alone should be alone: but God, being One, is alone and unique, and like God there is nothing. Hence, since it is good that He Who IS should be alone—for indeed with regard to Him alone can the statement “it is good” be made—it follows that it would not be good that the man should be alone. There is another way in which we may understand the statement that God is alone.

This treatise deals with Genesis 2:18–3:1. Let us mark its mode of dealing with the Sacred Text in salient instances.

The word “alone” in Gen. 2:18 draws out the reminder that God only is alone, self-contained, needing naught, not composite; while the heavenly Man ever yearns to be with God, and the earthy man always is with his passions. (1–4.)