[De contemptu mundi]

having been told, enticing them with eloquent speech, he said (Believe me): you shall not die: but for this reason this food is forbidden to you: because as soon as you eat of it: you will be as gods, knowing good and evil. Hearing which, the woman: more prompt to believe and more inclined to the eating of the apple, seizing the fruit: she ate of it: then gave it to her husband. Who, consenting to the woman because he had seen that she did not die: he also ate of it: and immediately they fell into sin: and disobedience: and seeing themselves to be naked: they were ashamed and made for themselves aprons of fig leaves: and covered their private parts: whereas before, when they did not have sin: they were like children: who are ashamed of nothing. The doctors indeed say: that if Adam and Eve had not tasted the bite of the apple: and had not transgressed the commands of the creator: among the pleasantries of paradise: which no man's soul and mind can think out: and no tongue however eloquent can express: they would have led their days in no small joy. No envy would have been there: no thirst: no hunger: no heat: no cold: no weariness: no sorrow: no bitter death would have occupied them: but they themselves with their descendants when it had pleased the sower