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FALL AND EXPULSION FROM PARADISE
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From heaven God ruledall the living thingsthat they should come out of every district without fierceness[1]till they arrived before (the gate of) Paradise.
Then they would return right-hand-wisewithout seed of pride or any murmuring,each of them to its very pure abodeafter taking leave of Adam.
The very fierce, double-headed beast,was subtle and watchful, with (his) twenty hosts,how under heaven he shall find a wayto bring about the destruction of Adam.
Lucifer, many his clear questions,[2]went amongst the animals,amongst the herds outside Paradiseuntil he found the serpent.
"Is it not useless (i.e. unworthy of you) thy being outside?"said the Devil to the serpent;"with thy dexterous cunning,with thy cleverness, with thy subtlety?
"Great was the danger and the wickednessthat Adam should have been ordained over thee;the downfall[3] of him, the youngest of created things,and his destruction, would be no crime to us.
  1. ↑ Lit. "without attack."
  2. ↑ This seems to be a cheville; lit. "number of clear questions."
  3. ↑ Lit. "his consuming."
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