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CHAPTER XI, 53–77.
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so that he may cultivate it and eat all the fruit, (64) except of that one tree of which it is ordered thus :
Ye shall not eat of it.' 65. And with them (mankind) the deceiver, who is the deluder prepared by him (the creator), (66) is let into the garden. 67. There are some who say he is a serpent, and there are some who say he is Aharman3. 68. And an inclination for eating and greediness is given by that same one himself to mankind. 69. Then, being deceived by that deluder saying: 'Eat of that tree' (70) there are some who say he spoke to Adam-(71) they ate through that inclination for eating.
72. After eating they became so imbued with knowledge that good and evil were understood and known by them. 73. Deprived of that so-great respect and affection, through that one injunction which was forgotten by them—(74) and that forgetfulness being likewise owing to that cause--(75) they are forced out of the garden of paradise 6-he with his wife—by grievous wrath and disrespect, (76) and are delivered into the hand of that enemy who is a deceiver and deluder ; (77) so that he has propagated
1. And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it". (Gen. ii. 15-17).
3. Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made' (Gen. iii. I).
3 «That old serpent, called the Devil and Satan' (Rev. xii. 9, XX. 2).
• Compare Gen. iii. 1-6. 5. And the eyes of them both were opened' (Gen. iij. 7)
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' (Gen. iii. 23, 24).
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| SR No. | 007677 |
| Book Title | Saddharma Pundarika |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | H Kern |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1884 |
| Total Pages | 2546 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 46 MB |