The Literal Meaning of Genesis

Name: The Literal Meaning of Genesis
Author: Augustine of Hippo

Augustine of Hippo

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Chapters 401

his face the breath of life; and man was made a living being. ≈ 2 min
which says, God breathed into his face the breath of life.2 Some ≈ 2 min
siderable help in dealing with a difficult question. ≈ 2 min
into bis face, and man was made a living being, if the soul is not ≈ 2 min
but that God by breathing forth made the soul of man. But we ≈ 3 min
of this corporeal world, and that the world itself is to Him a ≈ 2 min
Did God make it from that which was entirely nonexistent, that ≈ 2 min
whether God created from nothing the being which is called the ≈ 3 min
God created not only the causal reason of the future human ≈ 3 min
part of the world before the body of man was made from it, and ≈ 5 min
ready a happy life, then the soul has been given a life less ex- ≈ 3 min
which the rational (namely, human) soul is made, again a ques- ≈ 3 min
out of which the rational soul is made, we must be on our guard ≈ 3 min
their way of life can become like the beasts of the field. Hence ≈ 3 min
that the souls of human beings can be sent into beasts, or the ≈ 3 min
recollection of having been in the bodies of animals. Now, ei- ≈ 3 min
be considered Christians, hold a doctrine on the transplantation ≈ 3 min
fore, is not an irrational soul.?° ≈ 3 min
belongs to this element—but our breath, not God's. Hence, I ≈ 3 min
medical writers not only assert but also maintain that they can ≈ 2 min
or of air or of fire; but it is through the more subtle elements, ≈ 3 min
ion was made precisely because he began to have sensation in his ≈ 2 min
nerves are spread out, is placed near the brow, and the organs ≈ 2 min
out an interval of time, and since we cannot act spontaneously ≈ 3 min
terial out of which God made this breath which is called the ≈ 3 min
agents, whether vessels or organs or whatever else they may be ≈ 3 min
those who have said that the soul is from a fifth corporeal ele- ≈ 3 min
not be ignorant of itself even when it is seeking to know itself. ≈ 3 min
in common with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air ≈ 3 min
thing that exists, namely, every nature and substance, is a ≈ 3 min
material was it made (if |may use the expression)? Or from what ≈ 3 min
can be explained that its causal reason was said to have existed ≈ 3 min
ation, it was not yet created. How, then, was it said, God made ≈ 6 min
spiritual and intellectual being,®? could it be that, when God ≈ 3 min
one, and certainly it seems to me more acceptable to human rea- ≈ 3 min
consider. If the soul was already created and hidden away, ≈ 3 min
nally created so as to know its future works whether good or ≈ 3 min
whether it is compelled to go though unwilling. But it is more ≈ 3 min
before it was breathed into the formed body of man, let him con- ≈ 3 min
that man was made from the slime of the earth on the sixth day ≈ 3 min
which no one doubts the truth except an infidel or a scoffer, I ≈ 3 min
of man, I have no firm position except to say that it is from God ≈ 3 min
the man whom He formed.' | am aware that many authors have ≈ 2 min
style proper to allegory, as in the Canticle of Canticles, but from ≈ 3 min
wondrous deeds and a narration of the making of creatures. In ≈ 3 min
of Scripture; for some of them want Paradise to be understood ≈ 3 min
Manicheans,!° who are in error not because they are mistaken ≈ 3 min
the meaning of in Eden) in the East, and there He put the man whom ≈ 3 min
See, I have given you every seed-bearing plant bearing its seed over all ≈ 3 min
low: ... the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree ≈ 3 min
the spiritual paradise to which He sent the thief from the ≈ 3 min
doubts, that Wisdom is not a body and therefore not a tree. It ≈ 3 min
life was material food, and yet it had the power to give lasting ≈ 3 min
and evil.35 This tree was certainly visible and corporeal, as the ≈ 3 min
there it was divided into four parts. The name of the one is Phison; this ≈ 3 min
source of some of these rivers is known and of others is com- ≈ 3 min
in Paradise to cultivate and guard it. And the Lord God commanded ≈ 3 min
Where is human reason better able to speak, as it were, to nature ≈ 3 min
the whole world like a great tree of creation. In it is found a dou- ≈ 3 min
teriorly to assist its internal development. Similarly in the case ≈ 3 min
whom? There was surely no fear of an invader from the vicinity, ≈ 3 min
"to cultivate Paradise" in the sense in which we took the pre- ≈ 3 min
tivate Paradise" and "to guard Paradise," man could indeed cul- ≈ 3 min
right before our eyes? Man was indeed placed in Paradise to cul- ≈ 3 min
think there is good reason for preferring it: that is, God was to ≈ 3 min
for us and calls our attention to something important. From the ≈ 3 min
once created, to perform any good deed by his own powers if ≈ 3 min
oped and made fertile, having done his work he departs, leaving ≈ 3 min
good man and guard him. By Him we must be unceasingly ≈ 3 min
every tree that 1s in Paradise, but of the tree of the knowledge of good ≈ 3 min
of teaching that disobedience alone is a great evil, when man ≈ 3 min
free of the sovereignty of God when he does a deed that is sinful ≈ 3 min
down on him with a thunderous and devastating crash if he so ≈ 3 min
ence of evil, namely, one who before feeling the loss of the good ≈ 3 min
when they seek to discover how the tree of the knowledge of ≈ 3 min
him about the tree of the knowledge of good and evil when he ≈ 3 min
sweet, and undoubtedly they tried to avoid losing it. When God ≈ 3 min
command to the man only or to the woman also. But the writer ≈ 2 min
man whom He made, who was certainly from the beginning en- ≈ 2 min
glect according to our ability and the measure of help and grace ≈ 2 min
simultaneously all things, from which the course of time would ≈ 3 min
truly eternal and truly immortal and unchangeable, who is not ≈ 3 min
senses, presumes that when it is moving the body through space ≈ 3 min
space except from a joint which remains unmoved. Further- ≈ 3 min
spiritual creature without local motion in itself moves a body ≈ 3 min
hence so perfectly eternal that nothing can be coeternal with It. ≈ 3 min
weak or wayward will is subjected to the heavenly angels who ≈ 3 min
extrinsic assistance from any corporeal source.!°8 For outside of ≈ 3 min
the case with the holy angels, in so far as their own well-being ≈ 5 min
always the same in His immutable eternity, truth, and will, ≈ 3 min
"You may eat of every tree that 1s in Paradise, but of the tree of the ≈ 3 min
to grasp the utterance of God which He makes present to the ≈ 4 min
alone. Let Us make for him a helper like himself." And again God ≈ 3 min
say, "Again God formed from the earth all the beasts of the field ≈ 3 min
when He said, [t is not good that the man should be alone. Let Us ≈ 3 min
with His head as white as wool, now with the lower part of His ≈ 3 min
made for man, the answer that seems most probable is that it ≈ 3 min
from Paradise that they came together in sexual intercourse and ≈ 3 min
nothing but the ordinary course of nature as it is after man's sin ≈ 3 min
left Paradise? The reason is that soon after the creation of the ≈ 3 min
helper in begetting children, in what was she to help him? She ≈ 3 min
and be succeeded by their children, so that the human race by ≈ 3 min
be when the day's work will be done and they will all receive ≈ 3 min
made to be the helper of the man if procreation is eliminated, ≈ 3 min
they were not allowed intercourse in Paradise for the purpose ≈ 3 min
marriage, but none the less suppose that the power of reproduc- ≈ 3 min
adduced as proof that man and woman would not be joined in ≈ 3 min
that the natural bodies of the couple put in Paradise were of ≈ 3 min
this condition so deteriorates that a deadly disease consumes the ≈ 3 min
before they sinned could have given a command to their genital ≈ 3 min
physical characteristics of her sex, was made for the man from ≈ 3 min
making the woman as the man's helper. Now we must try to un- ≈ 3 min
ated nothing among the animals that was like the man and able ≈ 3 min
phetic mysteries but to interpret the narrative as a faithful his- ≈ 3 min
an was made from the side of the man? Let us assume that it was ≈ 3 min
owing of future events but the events which actually happened, ≈ 3 min
irrational souls as in beasts, birds, and fishes, are moved by what ≈ 3 min
was "'built,"'* to use the mysterious language of Scripture. The ≈ 3 min
irrigates. But it is not his work to make water flow down; that ≈ 3 min
working of His providence, about which I have spoken in the ≈ 3 min
telligence can understand nature, we have no evidence that any ≈ 3 min
of men and trees, and we firmly believe that the woman was ≈ 3 min
causal reasons when He created the first man to His image and ≈ 3 min
has certain natural laws in accordance with which even the spir- ≈ 3 min
tain things which He has not placed in creatures, and He makes ≈ 3 min
hidden, not in the world, in which the causal reasons of all ≈ 3 min
and powers in the heavens it would be made known through the Church ≈ 3 min
which Adam was caught up when God cast him into a sleep was ≈ 2 min
that I discuss the sin of the first man. But since Scripture has ≈ 2 min
soul of the woman was made from the soul of the man on the ≈ 4 min
Scripture, which we have commented on from the opening ≈ 3 min
soul not from the man but like him from God who made it, on ≈ 3 min
contradict the interpretation in which man is understood to ≈ 3 min
6. Consequently, no matter which one of the three interpre- ≈ 3 min
a soul cannot be turned into a bodily substance, so that what ≈ 3 min
to support the theory that God creates souls from angels func- ≈ 3 min
mony of Scripture. Is it the one which asserts that God made ≈ 3 min
one.18 Now, if by "hearts" we wish to understand "souls," this ≈ 3 min
which says, Who formed the spirit of man within bim,?} recognizing ≈ 3 min
the Book of Wisdom which says, A good soul fell to my lot; and ≈ 6 min
take away their spirit, and they will fail and return to their dust. ≈ 3 min
referring to the grace of God by which we are interiorly re- ≈ 3 min
earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it,>4 does ≈ 3 min
made from nothing the soul which He gave to the first man, and ≈ 3 min
ture touching this matter; and if it could be done, we should ≈ 3 min
ther of the two theories but is capable of being reconciled with ≈ 3 min
be implied in holding that the soul does not descend from Ad- ≈ 3 min
The desires of the flesh are against the spirit, and those of the spirit ≈ 3 min
acts according to it, for example, when one says, "The flesh de- ≈ 4 min
sires without the soul (an absurd position), and I also avoid ≈ 3 min
individually to human bodies so that, in spite of their being in ≈ 3 min
ing to the spirit, he must have the sacrament of the Mediator so ≈ 3 min
relatives out of unbelief or negligence fail to have the infant ≈ 3 min
sition who take Holy Scripture into account—either finding ev- ≈ 3 min
of infants and when asked why the sacrament of baptism is nec- ≈ 3 min
haps those who maintain that they are certain of this opinion ≈ 3 min
lows, the meaning of the text which we quoted and then put ≈ 3 min
seem favorable to those who maintain that souls are created as ≈ 3 min
to our Lord according to the created human nature assumed by ≈ 6 min
ceived His soul, I should prefer to hear the opinions of better ≈ 3 min
a passage that merits our careful consideration. For through ≈ 6 min
and say that their theory has been established if it is clear that ≈ 3 min
Abraham's loins (although it was according to the flesh alone), ≈ 3 min
in the loins of Abraham according to the flesh and not have paid ≈ 3 min
cited for their opinion by those who hold that souls come from ≈ 3 min
has allowed, I should judge the weight of reason and of scrip- ≈ 3 min
theory and hold that souls are generated by parents, to make ev- ≈ 3 min
he was unable to think of it as incorporeal, and hence he feared ≈ 3 min
had to hear and see God and which the soul employs in dreams. ≈ 6 min
soul grows with the body. He feared to say this "lest its sub- ≈ 3 min
oquent in expressing such an opinion? But his words are more ≈ 2 min
Now the serpent was the most subtle of all the wild creatures which the ≈ 3 min
I think I should make here an observation which I remember ≈ 4 min
of the two human beings living in Paradise were completely na- ≈ 3 min
which the Lord God had made on the earth.? Now, it is in a figura- ≈ 3 min
ly chose the serpent to use it in tempting our first parents and ≈ 3 min
tempted when He foreknew that man would yield to the tempt- ≈ 6 min
man, wondering why God allowed it to happen, as if they do ≈ 3 min
he would simply not wish to sin. Now I grant that a nature that ≈ 3 min
for God not to create a man who He foreknew could be correct- ≈ 3 min
to be any men on whom God would bestow such a gift of His ≈ 3 min
wicked would have been good." How much better was the will ≈ 3 min
be able to turn the bad wills of evil men into good wills. He ≈ 3 min
God that needs the evil of another creature so that it may ad- ≈ 3 min
He foresees the good and He creates them; He foresees the wick- ≈ 3 min
out the temptation through a serpent particularly, the authority ≈ 3 min
the nature of the Devil, since certain heretics, scandalized by his ≈ 3 min
cording to Scripture about the Devil. ≈ 3 min
of all sin.3° This testimony is supported also by the statement of ≈ 3 min
er unclean; one turned towards the neighbor, the other centered ≈ 3 min
perverting his good nature with an evil will. But reason clearly ≈ 3 min
blessed life among the blessed angels? If he had no foreknowl- ≈ 3 min
certain whether that state will remain or eventually be followed ≈ 3 min
body,>! if as a reward for a life of obedience he was to be given ≈ 3 min
happy in their own fashion while uncertain of their future sin ≈ 3 min
of good angels: the supercelestial angels, among whom the angel ≈ 3 min
towards evil by the free choice of his will, but that he simply ≈ 3 min
which it is said that the Devil was not corrupted by his own will ≈ 3 min
ture says, This 1s the beginning of the work fashioned by the Lord, ≈ 3 min
the truth'® and that he had never led a blessed life with the an- ≈ 3 min
How has he fallen from heaven, ≈ 2 min
Ezekiel are taken as spoken to the Devil: You are the seal of likeness ≈ 3 min
a treatise devoted to that subject alone. For the present, it should ≈ 6 min
and who uses the ministry of His holy angels to mock the Dev- ≈ 3 min
which were spoken through him to the woman, for we cannot ≈ 3 min
creatures,?® that is, the most astute, because of the astuteness of ≈ 3 min
think that irrational beings have human intellects or that they ≈ 3 min
'You shall not eat of every tree in Paradise'?" And the woman said to ≈ 3 min
death. For God knew that on the day on which you would eat of it your ≈ 3 min
Opened to what except to concupiscence for one another in ≈ 3 min
figurative sense on the basis of one word used with a transferred ≈ 3 min
what God had forbidden. Their bodies lost the privileged con- ≈ 3 min
Lord amidst the trees of Paradise.!'8 When God interiorly turns ≈ 3 min
you?'19 This question is uttered by One who is admonishing, ≈ 3 min
afraid because I am naked, and I hid myself:'?} It is quite probable ≈ 3 min
the manner followed in courts of law before imposing a greater ≈ 3 min
have done?" And she replied, "The serpent beguiled me, and I ate. 127 ≈ 3 min
cursed are you above all cattle and above all beasts upon the earth. ≈ 3 min
and your anguish. With sorrows you shall bring forth children, and ≈ 3 min
voice of your wife and have eaten of the one tree whereof I commanded ≈ 3 min
wife and clothed them.\*? This was done for the sake of a symbolic ≈ 3 min
ing good and evil."'*5 Now by whatever means or in whatever ≈ 3 min
of pleasure.149 This action actually took place, but it also has a ≈ 3 min
that the first couple were in a hurry to satisfy their desire for ≈ 3 min
couple anticipated marriage by a kind of theft and that they had ≈ 3 min
Adam was a spiritual man, in mind though not in body,!54 how ≈ 3 min
dom, believed that there was any advantage in the worship of ≈ 3 min
but I do not think that the wiles of the serpent by which the ≈ 4 min
Genesis, I began with the opening lines of the sacred book and ≈ 2 min
2. In the treatment of these words it is customary to ask first ≈ 2 min
a person does not distinguish them from bodies until he returns ≈ 3 min
tening to the account of a certain man, a peasant, who had been ≈ 3 min
heaven; as John, what he described in the Apocalypse; as Eze- ≈ 3 min
of the vision were not bodies, it may still be asked whether they ≈ 3 min
and examine them more carefully, agreeing first of all without ≈ 3 min
whether in the body I do not know, or out of the body I do not know, ≈ 3 min
heaven. Therefore it was actually the third heaven to which he ≈ 3 min
tual's image resembling a corporeal substance, it would also be ≈ 4 min
both were equally known or not known. But if heaven itself was ≈ 4 min
recognize whether he saw it with the eyes of the body? And if ≈ 4 min
does not know, so that he may not deceive those who believe ≈ 3 min
he knew from what he did not know, could not be guilty of a ≈ 3 min
through the body, is to see with a vision surpassing all other vi- ≈ 3 min
something to say in the preceding books as occasion arose, ≈ 3 min
of these words, my explanation would be rather diffuse and ob- ≈ 3 min
body, in the state in which it will be in the resurrection of the ≈ 3 min
in which "spirit" is used, that we take the word "spiritual" to ≈ 3 min
by means of certain likenesses of corporeal objects had not yet ≈ 3 min
mind, is on a higher plane.*° The word "intellect," so far as I ≈ 3 min
spiritual, and intellectual, must be considered separately, so that ≈ 3 min
the wall,52 and immediately the image of a corporeal object was ≈ 3 min
strings and filled with various animals, being let down from ≈ 3 min
our bodily senses, we experience a corporeal vision, we distin- ≈ 3 min
senses of the body, and the spiritual vision is occupied with the ≈ 3 min
itself a power of divination.>? But if this is so, why is it not al- ≈ 3 min
sessed by a devil occasionally speak the truth about objects be- ≈ 3 min
images of corporeal objects revealed in the spirit, good spirits in- ≈ 3 min
nature and importance of those matters in which even errone- ≈ 3 min
en in sleep when people dream even of having carnal inter- ≈ 3 min
real world and flows through the channels of the five senses, ≈ 3 min
Spirit takes precedence over body, and the image of a body ≈ 3 min
its know these spiritual likenesses of bodies in our minds®! or ≈ 3 min
Though confined within his home, he would tell when a priest ≈ 3 min
who predicted the death of a certain woman. He did this not as ≈ 3 min
stages of puberty and suffering from a severe pain in the genital ≈ 3 min
derful light as they sang hymns of joy, and at the same time a ≈ 3 min
and divinations, and the methods followed in them, and to grasp ≈ 3 min
tus,87 and I say that it means "wise" or "sharp," and when he, ≈ 3 min
an examination of examples.88 Such bodily states as pallor, ≈ 5 min
an impediment to sense perception, when such an impediment ≈ 3 min
normal functioning of the senses, the soul is carried off by some ≈ 3 min
by a good spirit to see these images unless they have some spe- ≈ 3 min
a hoax in a spirit of jest, pretended to be astrologers—though ≈ 3 min
being celebrated in a place where there were many idols, a ≈ 3 min
fashioned there? Or are they implanted fully formed and seen ≈ 3 min
fact, namely, that there exists in us a spiritual nature in which ≈ 6 min
bodies but the likenesses of bodies, enjoys visions of a kind in- ≈ 3 min
by means of the body it perceives objects such as the corporeal ≈ 6 min
cause of any fault of these images but because of its own erro- ≈ 3 min
objects of vision that are similar to corporeal things and are seen ≈ 3 min
bodily senses to be among the likenesses of bodies seen by the ≈ 3 min
as he had seen Him on the mountain, nor as he saw Him in the ≈ 6 min
this third type of vision, which is superior to every corporeal vi- ≈ 3 min
ried, some may wish to conjecture the existence of a fourth ≈ 3 min
en which we see above the earth and from which shine forth the ≈ 3 min
that are seen in the soul itself:!°> for example, the virtues (to ≈ 3 min
from the body is brought to some corporeal region, or to an in- ≈ 3 min
false or that that peace and joy are false; for there is falsity only ≈ 3 min
my old age with sorrow unto hell,''° he feared, it seems, that he ≈ 3 min
cessfully or otherwise, | am compelled by the length of this book ≈ 3 min
earth because of the way it is represented appropriately in the ≈ 3 min
heaven in general as this whole corporeal heaven (to use a gen- ≈ 3 min
their bodies in the resurrection, if they can be admitted to the ≈ 3 min
which we have been speaking, but no error will induce us to ≈ 3 min
terpreters of Sacred Scripture before the present time have ex- ≈ 37 min
away in created works; there was only the eternal reason (ratio ≈ 3 min
spiritual creature. But no such creature has been mentioned; ≈ 3 min
and intellectual creation (the angels) made on the first day. But ≈ 3 min
creature. This is immediately dismissed as impossible (7.23.34). ≈ 3 min
works of the six days. Aug. thinks it reasonable to suppose that ≈ 122 min
leaves the matter undecided. Towards the end of his life, A.D. ≈ 22 min
a) seen with the eyes of the body (in which case St. Paul ≈ 3 min
a) represented by an image of a body (in which case he ≈ 25 min
of the senses. ≈ 2 min
of the senses. ≈ 13 min
terrestria and caelestia; ≈ 3 min
naturaliter visa and demonstrata ab angelts; ≈ 3 min
intellectualia in ipsa anima and Deus tlluminans. ≈ 20 min
32.613): I had not published it [De Genesi ad litteram inperfectus ≈ 3 min
ML 32.640): At this same time [when he was writing De bono con- ≈ 3 min
33.699): This question [i.e., of images arising in the soul in sleep ≈ 2 min
terram. heaven and earth. ≈ 3 min
sita, et tenebrae erant super abyssum. formless, and darkness was over the ≈ 3 min
est lux. light," and light was made. ≈ 3 min
et divisit Deus inter lucem et tene- and God separated the light from the ≈ 3 min
tenebras noctem, et facta est vespera and the darkness Night, and evening ≈ 3 min
in medio aquarum et sit dividens in- firmament in the midst of the waters, ≈ 3 min
divisit Deus inter aquam quae erat and God divided the water that was ≈ 3 min
caelum. Et vidit Deus quia bonum Heaven. And God saw that it was ≈ 3 min
quae est sub caelo in congregationem that is under the heaven be gathered ≈ 3 min
congregationem aquae vocavit mare. Earth and the assembled waters Seas. ≈ 4 min
herbam pabuli ferentem semen se- bring forth the nourishing crops, ≈ 4 min
men habentem secundum suum ge- nourishing crops, seed-bearing ac- ≈ 4 min
mane, dies tertius. morning, the third day. ≈ 4 min
firmamento caeli, sic ut luceant super lights in the firmament of heaven to ≈ 4 min
mento caeli, sic ut luceant super ter- firmament of heaven to shine upon ≈ 4 min
na, luminare maius in inchoationem the greater light to establish the day ≈ 4 min
caeli, sic ut luceant super terram, ment of heaven to shine upon the ≈ 4 min
noctis, et ut dividant inter lucem et divide light and darkness. God saw ≈ 4 min
mane, dies quartus. was morning, the fourth day. ≈ 4 min
reptilia animarum vivarum et volati- bring forth the creeping creatures ≈ 4 min
omnem animam animalium repti- monsters and all the living creeping ≈ 4 min
Crescite et multiplicamini et inplete "Increase and multiply and fill the ≈ 4 min
mane, dies quintus. morning, the fifth day. ≈ 4 min
mam vivam secundum genus: quadru- bring forth the living creature ac- ≈ 4 min
dum genus, et pecora secundum ge- earth according to their kinds, and ≈ 4 min
minem ad imaginem et similitudinem mankind in Our image and likeness; ≈ 4 min
ginem Dei fecit eum: masculum et fe- age of God He made him: male and ≈ 4 min
Crescite et multiplicamini, et inplete "Increase and multiply and fill the ≈ 4 min
omne pabulum seminale, seminans you every seed-bearing plant bearing ≈ 4 min
nibus volatilibus caeli, et omni reptili earth, for all the birds of the air, and ≈ 4 min
ecce bona valde. Et facta est vespera, made, and behold, it was very good. ≈ 4 min
terra et omnis ornatus eorum. were finished and all their array. ≈ 4 min
sexto opera sua quae fecit, et requie- ished the works He had made, and ≈ 4 min
mum et sanctificavit eum, quia in and made it holy, because on it He ≈ 4 min
terrae. Cum factus est dies, fecit of heaven and earth. When day was ≈ 4 min
set super terram, et omne fenum agri before it appeared above the earth, ≈ 4 min
et inrigabat omnem faciem terrae. and watered all the face of the earth. ≈ 4 min
verem de terra et insufflavit in fa- from the earth and breathed into his ≈ 4 min
Eden ad orientem et posuit ibi ho- Eden in the east, and there He put ≈ 4 min
omne lignum pulchrum ad aspectum made to grow every tree that is pleas- ≈ 4 min
quod inrigabat paradisum et inde dise went out of Eden, and from ≈ 4 min
est quod circuit totam terram Evilat, is the one that flows around all the ≈ 4 min
et ibi est carbunculus et lapis pra- and carbuncle and emerald are found ≈ 4 min
hoc est quod circuit totam terram is Geon: it is the one that flows ≈ 4 min
hoc est quod fluit contra Assyrios. is Tigris, which flows by the land of ≈ 4 min
minem quem fecit et posuit eum in whom He made and placed him in ≈ 4 min
Adae, dicens: Ab omni ligno quod est Adam, saying, "You may eat of every ≈ 4 min
bonum et malum non manducabitis of good and evil you shall not eat. In ≈ 4 min
bonum est esse hominem solum; fa- good that the man should be alone. ≈ 4 min
omnes bestias agri et omnia volatilia earth all the beasts of the field and all ≈ 4 min
bus pecoribus et omnibus volatilibus cattle and to all the birds of heaven ≈ 4 min
tionem super Adam, et obdormivit, et stasy, and as Adam slept, God took ≈ 4 min
tam quam accepit de Adam in mu- which He took from Adam into a ≈ 4 min
ossibus meis et caro de carne mea; bone of my bones and flesh of my ≈ 4 min
patrem et matrem et conglutinabitur his father and mother and shall ≈ 4 min
ligni quod est in paradiso edemus; pent, "We may eat of the fruit of ≈ 4 min
medio paradisi dixit Deus: Non ede- in the middle of Paradise, God said, ≈ 4 min
morte moriemini. an, "You will not die the death. ≈ 4 min
die manducaveritis de eo aperientur which you would eat of it your eyes ≈ 4 min
num in escam et quia placet oculis vi- tree was good for food and pleasing ≈ 4 min
agnoverunt quia nudi erant; et con- were opened, and they perceived that ≈ 4 min
deambulantis in paradiso ad ves- Lord God as He walked in Paradise ≈ 4 min
et dixit illi: Adam, ubi es? and said to him, 'Adam, where are ≈ 4 min
deambulantis in paradiso et timui, voice as Thou wert walking in Para- ≈ 4 min
quia nudus es, nisi a ligno quod prae- told you that you were naked but ≈ 4 min
disti mecum haec mihi dedit a ligno, whom Thou gavest to be my com- ≈ 4 min
Quid hoc fecisti? Et dixit mulier: Ser- woman, "What is this that you have ≈ 4 min
Quia fecisti hoc, maledictus tu ab pent, "Because you have done this, ≈ 4 min
inter mulierem et inter semen tuum you and the woman and between ≈ 4 min
multiplicabo tristitias tuas et gemi- greatly multiply your sorrows and ≈ 4 min
vocem mulieris tuae et edisti de ligno you have listened to the voice of your ≈ 4 min
edes fenum agri. forth for you, and you shall eat the ≈ 4 min
tuum, donec convertaris in terram, shall eat your bread until you return ≈ 4 min
suae "Vita" quoniam haec est mater "Life," for she is the mother of all ≈ 4 min
mulieri eius tunicas pelliceas et in- ments of skin for Adam and his wife ≈ 4 min
Adam factus est tamquam unus ex Adam has become like one of Us, ≈ 4 min
de paradiso voluptatis operari terram from the Paradise of pleasure to till ≈ 1 min
contra paradisum voluptatis, et ordin- him over against the Paradise of ≈ 1 min
Genesis 2.18 265n1, 265n7 ≈ 10 min
temptation of, 137, 139, 175-77; ≈ 37 min
annot. by J. N. D. KELLY. Pages viii + 166. 1955. ≈ 4 min
RECTION OF THE DEAD. Trans. and annot. by JOSEPH HUGH CREHAN, ≈ 4 min
CHURCH. Trans. and annot. by MAURICE BEVENOT, S.J. Pages vi + 133. ≈ 4 min
Trans. and annot. by R. P. LAWSON. Pages vi + 385. 1957. ≈ 4 min
PURITY. Trans. and annot. by WILLIAM P. LE SAINT, S.J. Pages vi + 330. ≈ 4 min
SCHOLASTICA HEBGIN AND DAME FELICITAS CORRIGAN. Pages vi + 420. ≈ 4 min
Trans. and annot. by JOHN HAMMOND TAYLOR, S.J. Pages vi + 285. 1982. ≈ 4 min
Trans. and annot. by JOHN HAMMOND TAYLOR, S.J. Pages vi + 352.°1982. ≈ 4 min

Author	Augustine of Hippo
Language	English
Era	Modern
Categories	Bible Commentaries · Theology
Length	401 chapters · ≈ 26 h 3 min read
Formats	Web Book · PDF

The Literal Meaning of Genesis

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