“For just as the former was led astray by the word of an angel — so that she fled from God when she had transgressed His word — so did the latter, by an angelic communication, receive the glad tidings that she should bear 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.”
(Irenaeus, ‘Against the Heresies’)