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is not an agent by necessity, but an agent by choice, for He may create what He wills, when He wills.
Adam and Eve were naked, without clothing,
The Fall of the first created.
and neither was ashamed before the other, until Satan entered into the serpent and deceived Eve. She ate from the fruit that God, the Exalted, had forbidden them to eat, and she also gave to Adam, her husband, and he ate. The
variant: "their eyes"
eyes of their hearts were opened, and they sensed their nakedness; they were ashamed and covered themselves with fig leaves. They were brought down from the Garden of Eden to the earth at the ninth hour of Friday, and their creation had been at the first hour of this very same day.
Various opinions on the forbidden fruit.
Our scholars have differed regarding the forbidden fruit. One group said it was wheat, others said it was grapes, and the majority said it was the fig. Gregory of Nyssa claims it is a symbol for the appetitive power, and Nazianzen sees it as a symbol for the woman in her nature of pleasure and her qualities.
According to the view of Mar Photius, thirty years after being cast out of the Garden, Adam knew Eve,
Adam's first children.
and she bore Cain and his twin sister, Qalima. After another thirty years, he had relations with her, and she bore Abel and his twin sister, Lebuda. After seventy years, Adam attempted to marry each one of them to his brother's twin, but Cain refused, demanding his own twin. For that reason, he offered a sacrifice from the fruits of his land, for he was a farmer, but it was not accepted
variant: "angrily"