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garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.. . .And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayst freely eat : but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it ; for in the day that thou

eatest thereof thou shalt surely die The

woman took of the fruit, and gave also to the man.. . .And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. . .And they hid themselves. . .And the Lord God called unto Adam. . .And the man said, I was afraid because I was naked, and I hid myself. And He said. Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree?. . .And unto the man he said, Cursed is the ground for thy sake: in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. Thorns also, and thistles shall it bring forth. . .In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread all the days of thy life. . .And the Lord God said, Behold, the man has become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat and live forever, therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man: and he placed at the East of the garden of Eden cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life."

The inculcation plainly is that man, in some distant era, was a thinking, but not self-contemplative being, even as the chiefest of all animals, and thus was pure, because he knew not impurity; he was naked,