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FALL AND EXPULSION FROM PARADISE
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"For guiding thee on that roadto destroy Eve and Adam,for going with thee truly to the attackwhatever act thou mayest undertake?"[1]
(Lucifer replies)
"What greater reward shall I give to theeaccording to the measure of our great crime(than that) our union in our habits, in our wrath,shall be for ever spoken of?"
When he found a place for the betrayalin the likeness of the serpent's shape,slowly he went tarrying[2]directly to the gate of Paradise.
The serpent called outside,"dost thou hear me, O wife of Adam?come and converse with me, O Eve of the fair form,beyond[3] every other."
"I have no time to talk with anyone,"said Eve to the serpent;"I am going out to feedthe senseless animals."
"If you are the Eve whose fame was heardwith honour in Paradise,wife of Adam, beautiful, wide-minded,in her I desire[4] my full satisfaction."[5]
  1. ↑ Lit. " rise to."
  2. ↑ Or "steadily."
  3. ↑ Or perhaps "apart from" every other.
  4. ↑ Or "I beseech."
  5. ↑ Or "need."
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