The early Christians recognized that Mary was the “woman” from Genesis 3.15 who would give birth to the one who would crush the serpent’s head. Centrally, it was not the woman who was to be praised, but her promised seed. Mary was the vessel for the promise to Abraham to be fulfilled: And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed (Gen. 12.3 NKJV).

Many believe Luke wrote Hebrews by the statement in 2.3b: It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard (ESV). Comparing this declaration with Luke’s historiographic intention in Lk. 1.1-3a: Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things that have been accomplished among us, just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word have delivered them to us, it seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account.

Heb. 4.12 may give the solution to the cryptic prophecy of Simeon which speaks about a sword piercing the “soul”: And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, “Behold, this child is appointed for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is opposed (and a sword will pierce through your own soul also), so that thoughts from many hearts may be revealed (Lk. 2.34-35 ESV). Then in Hebrews it is revealed that God’s word pierces so as to divide soul and spirit: For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart (Heb. 4.12 ESV).

Anyway, here is a defense of Mary’s fallenness.

http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-new-eve-sinner.html