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Chapter XLII.—Was
Adam Blind?
Then said Peter: “Because things are
written opposite to those sayings which speak evil of him; wherefore
neither the one nor the other can be confirmed.” Then
Simon: “How, then, is the truth to be ascertained, of those
Scriptures that say he is evil, or of those that say he is
good?” Then Peter: “Whatever sayings of the
Scriptures are in harmony with the creation that was made by Him are
true, but whatever are contrary to it are false.”986
| 986 [Comp. ii. 38 and
many other passages for this view of the errors of Scripture. The
test of truth as here stated is noteworthy. It suggests some
modern affinities.—R.] | Then Simon said: “How
can you show that the Scriptures contradict themselves?”
And Peter said: “You say that Adam was created blind, which
was not so; for He would not have pointed out the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil to a blind man, and commanded him not to taste of
it.” Then said Simon: “He meant that his mind
was blind.” Then Peter: “How could he be blind
in respect of his mind, who, before tasting of the tree, in harmony
with Him who made him, imposed appropriate names on all the
animals?” Then Simon: “If Adam had
foreknowledge, how did he not foreknow that the serpent would deceive
his wife?” Then Peter: “If Adam had not
foreknowledge, how did he give names to the sons of men as they were
born with reference to their future doings, calling the first Cain
(which is interpreted ‘envy’), who through envy killed his
brother Abel (which is interpreted ‘grief’), for his
parents grieved over him, the first slain?
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