[RobbyS]

No more of an automaton than Eve, who was also created sinless.

[Kolokotronis]

“No more of an automaton than Eve, who was also created sinless.”

True, but Eve was not “preserved” sinless as the Latins would have it Panagia was.

R, your point, of course, is perfectly patristic. The Most Holy Theotokos is indeed the Second Eve. The IC adds nothing to what The Fathers taught in that regard.