Episode notes
And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. Ecclesiastes 1:17. {CC 17.1}
Adam and Eve both ate of the fruit, and obtained a knowledge which, had they obeyed God, they would never have had, --an experience in disobedience and disloyalty to God,--the knowledge that they were naked. The garment of innocence, a covering from God, which surrounded them, departed; and they supplied the place of this heavenly garment by sewing together fig-leaves for aprons. {CC 17.2}
This is the covering that the transgressors of the law of God have used since the days of Adam and Eve's disobedience. . . . The fig-leaves represent the arguments used to cover disobedience. . . . {CC 17.3}
But the nakedness of the sinner is not covered. . . . {CC 17.4}
Had Adam and Eve never disobeyed their Creator, had they rema ...
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