First Book of Adam and Eve | Page 4

sins, erase the transgression
they had committed, and be no longer reminded of it in the thought of
their punishment.
6 As to the southern side of the garden, God did not want Adam to live
there either; because, when the wind blew from the north, it would
bring him, on that southern side, the delicious smell of the trees of the
garden.
7 Wherefore God did not put Adam there. This was so that he would
not be able to smell the sweet smell of those trees, forget his
transgression, and find consolation for what he had done by taking
delight in the smell of the trees and yet not be cleansed from his
transgression.
8 Again, also, because God is merciful and of great pity, and governs
all things in a way that He alone knows -- He made our father Adam
live in the western border of the garden, because on that side the earth
is very broad.
9 And God commanded him to live there in a cave in a rock -- the Cave
of Treasures below the garden.


Chapter II
- Adam and Eve faint when they leave the Garden. God sends His
Word to encourage them.
1 But when our father Adam, and Eve, went out of the garden, they
walked the ground on their feet, not knowing they were walking.
2 And when they came to the opening of the gate of the garden, and
saw the broad earth spread before them, covered with stones large and
small, and with sand, they feared and trembled, and fell on their faces,
from the fear that came over them; and they were as dead.

3 Because -- whereas until this time they had been in the garden land,
beautifully planted with all manner of trees -- they now saw themselves,
in a strange land, which they knew not, and had never seen.
4 And because, when they were in the garden they were filled with the
grace of a bright nature, and they had not hearts turned toward earthly
things.
5 Therefore God had pity on them; and when He saw them fallen
before the gate of the garden, He sent His Word to our father, Adam
and Eve, and raised them from their fallen state.


Chapter III
- Concerning the promise of the great five and a half days.
1 God said to Adam, "I have ordained on this earth days and years, and
you and your descendants shall live and walk in them, until the days
and years are fulfilled; when I shall send the Word that created you,
and against which you have transgressed, the Word that made you
come out of the garden, and that raised you when you were fallen.
2 Yes, the Word that will again save you when the five and a half days
are fulfilled."
3 But when Adam heard these words from God, and of the great five
and a half days, he did not understand the meaning of them.
4 For Adam was thinking there would be only five and a half days for
him until the end of the world.
5 And Adam cried, and prayed to God to explain it to him.
6 Then God in his mercy for Adam who was made after His own image
and likeness, explained to him, that these were 5,000 and 500 years;
and how One would then come and save him and his descendants.
7 But before that, God had made this covenant with our father, Adam,
in the same terms, before he came out of the garden, when he was by
the tree where Eve took of the fruit and gave it to him to eat.
8 Because, when our father Adam came out of the garden, he passed by
that tree, and saw how God had changed the appearance of it into
another form, and how it shriveled.
9 And as Adam went to it he feared, trembled and fell down; but God

in His mercy lifted him up, and then made this covenant with him.
10 And again, when Adam was by the gate of the garden, and saw the
cherub with a sword of flashing fire in his hand, and the cherub grew
angry and frowned at him, both Adam and Eve became afraid of him,
and thought he meant to put them to death. So they fell on their faces,
trembled with fear.
11 But he had pity on them, and showed them mercy; and turning from
them went up to heaven, and prayed to the Lord, and said; --
12 "Lord, You sent me to watch at the gate of the garden, with a sword
of fire.
13 But when Your servants, Adam and Eve, saw me, they