[De contemptu mundi]

And when the Lord walked in the breeze in paradise after midday, Adam and Eve, hearing his voice, hid themselves in the midst of the wood of paradise. The Lord calling them said: Adam, Adam, where are you? He said: I heard your voice, Lord, in paradise, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself. To whom the Lord said: Who told you that you were naked, unless you have eaten from the tree from which I had commanded you not to eat? Adam answered: Lord, the woman whom you gave me as a companion, gave me of the tree, and I ate. And the Lord God said to the woman: Why have you done this? She replied: The serpent deceived me, and I ate. And the Lord said to the serpent: Because you have done this, you are cursed among all animals and beasts of the earth. Upon your breast you will go, and you will eat earth all the days of your life. I will place enmities between you and the woman, and your seed and her seed. She will crush your head, and you will lie in wait for her heel. To the woman also he said: I will multiply your hardships and your conceptions: in pain you will give birth to children, and you will be under the power of your husband, and he will rule over you. To Adam he said: Because you listened to the voice of your wife, and ate of the tree from which