The Discovery Of Genesis
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Chapter 6: <strong>The</strong> Fruit Tragedy<br />
“How can you portray the word temptation by using<br />
just four words?’ asked the quiz master on a popular<br />
television program. “I will give you a hint by supplying<br />
one of the four words. Now listen carefully - the word<br />
is garden.” Immediately one of the contestants had the<br />
answer: “Garden Eve serpent apple!”<br />
“That is correct!” responded the questioner. And<br />
who would not have equated “temptation” with the<br />
episode recorded in <strong>Genesis</strong>? Many and varied have<br />
been the cartoons created through the years which depict<br />
a hapless Eve who stands coveting a delectable<br />
piece of fruit held out by the serpentine tempter.<br />
How does the most ancient of all picture-writers<br />
(for it would be inappropriate to call him a cartoonist)<br />
illustrate the word to covet or desire? Is it mere happenstance<br />
that to covet .$& utilizes two trees A,$ and a woman<br />
+ ? <strong>The</strong> Biblical record says, “So when the woman saw<br />
that the free was good for food, and that it was a delight<br />
to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make<br />
one wise, she took of its fruit and ate” (<strong>Genesis</strong> 3: 6). It<br />
was the woman, Eve, and not the man who first desired<br />
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