First Book of Adam and Eve | Page 9

and commanded you to live in this cave;
and darkness covered you, as it did over him who transgressed My
commandment.
10 Thus, O Adam, has this night deceived you. It is not to last forever;
but is only of twelve hours; when it is over, daylight will return.
11 Sigh not, therefore, neither be moved; and say not in your heart that
this darkness is long and drags on wearily; and say not in your heart
that I plague you with it.
12 Strengthen your heart, and be not afraid. This darkness is not a
punishment. But, O Adam, I have made the day, and have placed the
sun in it to give light; in order that you and your children should do
your work.
13 For I knew you would sin and transgress, and come out into this
land. Yet I wouldn't force you, nor be heard over you, nor shut up; nor
doom you through your fall; nor through your coming out from light
into darkness; nor yet through your coming from the garden into this
land.
14 For I made you of the light; and I willed to bring out children of
light from you and like to you.
15 But you did not keep My commandment one day; until I had
finished the creation and blessed everything in it.
16 Then, concerning the tree, I commanded you not to eat of it. Yet I
knew that Satan, who deceived himself, would also deceive you.
17 So I made known to you by means of the tree, not to come near him.
And I told you not to eat of the fruit thereof, nor to taste of it, nor yet to
sit under it, nor to yield to it.
18 Had I not been and spoken to you, O Adam, concerning the tree, and
had I left you without a commandment, and you had sinned -- it would
have been an offence on My part, for not having given you any order;
you would turn around and blame Me for it.

19 But I commanded you, and warned you, and you fell. So that My
creatures cannot blame Me; but the blame rests on them alone.
20 And, O Adam, I have made the day so that you and your
descendants can work and toil in it. And I have made the night for them
to rest in it from their work; and for the beasts of the field to go forth
by night and look for their food.
21 But little of darkness now remains, O Adam, and daylight will soon
appear."


Chapter XIV
- The earliest prophesy of the coming of Christ.
1 Then Adam said to God: "O Lord, take You my soul, and let me not
see this gloom any more; or remove me to some place where there is no
darkness."
2 But God the Lord said to Adam, "Indeed I say to you, this darkness
will pass from you, every day I have determined for you, until the
fulfillment of My covenant; when I will save you and bring you back
again into the garden, into the house of light you long for, in which
there is no darkness*. I will bring you to it -- in the kingdom of
heaven."
3 Again said God to Adam, "All this misery that you have been made
to take on yourself because of your transgression, will not free you
from the hand of Satan, and will not save you.
4 But I will. When I shall come down from heaven, and shall become
flesh of your descendants, and take on Myself the infirmity from which
you suffer, then the darkness that covered you in this cave shall cover
Me in the grave, when I am in the flesh of your descendants.
5 And I, who am without years, shall be subject to the reckoning of
years, of times, of months, and of days, and I shall be reckoned as one
of the sons of men, in order to save you."
6 And God ceased to commune with Adam.
* Reference: John 12:46

Chapter XV
- Adam and Eve grieve over the suffering of God to save them from
their sins.
1 Then Adam and Eve cried and sorrowed by reason of God's word to
them, that they should not return to the garden until the fulfillment of
the days decreed on them; but mostly because God had told them that
He should suffer for their salvation.


Chapter XVI
- The first sunrise. Adam and Eve think it is a fire coming to burn them.
1 After this, Adam and Eve continued to stand in the cave, praying and
crying, until the morning dawned on them.
2 And when they saw