Week 4 Reading Notes: Adam and Eve, Part B

Story source: The Forgotten Books of Eden, edited by Rutherford H. Platt, Jr. (1926): The First Book of Adam and Eve 1-25.

Leaving the Garden
- "God planted the garden in the east of the earth"

- God made Adam leave the garden

- God is merciful and pity

- made Adam dwell in the western border of the garden, in the Cave of Treasures

- God had pity on them though

 

(The Expulsion, Caedmon ms., circa 1000)

Entering the Cave of Treasures

- Adam did not understand God's words, so God explained it to him

- Jesus would come and save the world, Adam's offspring

- God made a covenant with Adam

- Adam and Eve fell on their faces in front of God and trembled with fear

- Adam wept at his altered flesh

They Die a First Time

- they prayed in a tongue unknown to us in the cave

- Eve thought Adam was dead, and cried out to God begging for forgiveness

- she prayed that if God would not raise him from the dead, that she would want to die so she doesn't have to live alone because they are one

- God raised them and comforted them

The Beasts of Creation

- they hearts were strengthen and felt that God was a mother and father

- the Lord had pity on Adam and then commanded the beats and birds to respond to Adam and Eve

- eventually, they came out of the Cave of Treasures and saw the root of the Tree of Life and it tormented them

Want of Water and Light

- Adam was raised from the dead and they cried and looked at the garden a second time

- Adam and Eve were burning with thirst, heat, and sorrow

- Adam and Eve could not see each other, but only hear each other

The Darkness

- the Lord spoke to Adam and said he deprived him of bright light because of his transgression, but he did not turn him into darkness

- his wrath could have destroyed them, but the Lord had mercy

The Sunrise and the Serpent

- they found Satan at the gate, wriggling on the ground (his curse from the Lord)

- the serpent tried to kill them, but Adam protected eve

- God then sent an angel to protect them both

- the serpent was struck dumb and spoke no more

Suicide and Salvation

- Adam fell on the earth and the word of the Lord came to him

- they praised the Lord from delivering them from the dead

- Adam threw himself off a mountain

- Eve remained on the mountain then threw herself after him

- the Lord saved them

Worship and Blessing

- they made an altar to worship him

- they begged for forgiveness of their sins

- God told Adam not to kill himself to be an offering