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FALL AND EXPULSION FROM PARADISE
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"Tell me, O glorious Eve,since it chances that we are discoursing together,in your judgment, is the life in Paradise,with your lordship here, pleasant?"
(Eve replies)
"Until we go faultless in our turn, (or "ranks")in our bodies to heaven,we do not ask here greater lordshipthan what there is of good in Paradise.
"Every good thing,[1] as it was heard,that God created in Paradise,save one tree, all without reserve,is thus under our control.[2]
"It is He, the dear God, who committed to us,O pale, bashful creature,Paradise as a solace[3] for His people (?)except the fruit of the one tree.
"'Let alone the very pure tree,'He cautioned myself and Adam,'the fruit of the rough tree, if thou eatest of itagainst my command, thou shalt die.'"
  1. ↑ This is the L. B. reading; the text has fia. Is it fiadh, of which one meaning is "meat," or " food"?
  2. ↑ Or "it is thus according to rule," i.e. laid down for us.
  3. ↑ Donad seems to be used in the same way as dídnad, "solace" or "consolation," v.n. of dídonaim, "I console."
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