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In the Talmud is rather a good story about this pundit. Cæsar asked Gamaliel how it was that God robbed Adam in order to make Eve. Gamaliel’s daughter instantly replied, the robbery was substituting a golden vessel for an earthen one.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.