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| Chapter XXI.—Of the Fall of Man.
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Chapter XXI.—Of the Fall of Man.
“Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast
of the field which the Lord
God had made. And the serpent said to the woman, Why hath God said,
Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto
the serpent, We eat of every tree of the garden, but of the fruit of the
tree which is in the midst of the garden God hath said, Ye shall not eat
of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto
the woman, Ye shall not surely die. For God doth know that in the day
ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods,
knowing good and evil. And the woman saw that the tree was good for food,
and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make
one wise; and having taken of the fruit thereof, she did eat, and gave
also unto her husband with her: and they did eat. And the eyes of them
both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig
leaves together, and made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice
of the Lord God walking
in the garden in the cool of the
day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the
Lord God amongst the trees
of the garden. And the Lord
God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? And he said
unto Him, I heard Thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I
was naked, and I hid myself. And He said unto him, Who told thee that
thou wast naked, unless thou hast eaten of the tree whereof I commanded
thee that thou shouldest not eat? And Adam said, The woman whom Thou
gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. And God
said to the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman
said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou
hast done this, thou art accursed above all the beasts of the earth;
on thy breast and belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the
days of thy life: and I will put enmity between thee and the woman,
and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou
shalt bruise his heel.591
| 591
Theophilus reads, “It shall watch thy head, and thou shalt watch his
heel.” | And to the woman He said, I will greatly multiply
thy sorrow and thy travail: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children;
and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. And
unto Adam He said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy
wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou
shalt not eat of it; cursed is the ground in592
thy works:
in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns and
thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of
the field. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat thy bread, till thou
return unto the earth; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art,
and unto dust shalt thou return.”593
| 593 Gen. ii. 8-iii. 19. [See Justin M., Dial.,
cap. lvi. p. 223, vol. 1. this series.] | Such is the account
given by holy Scripture of the history of man and of Paradise.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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