Section 14
that "the evil" was present with him. The Greek word translated "the evil" in this verse is kakos, a word denoting that which is evil in character. This must refer to the evil character of Satan himself. I have no doubt that the sin which has entered into our body is the incarnation of Satan. When man ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge, that fruit entered his being. In fact, everything we eat comes into our body. As we have already seen, the tree of life in the garden denoted God, and the tree of knowledge signified Satan. There fore, when man partook of the tree of knowl edge, man took Satan, the evil one, into him. The body created by God originally had no evil in it. The Bible says that the man created by God was very good and upright (Gen. 1:31; Eccl. 7:29). However, after the fall another element was in jected into man's body. That element was sin, the very nature of the evil one. This sin reigns in us. Its power is the law, and it reigns in death.
Death
Having Come through Sin
The second reigning thing is death. Death came through sin (5:12), for sin opened the way for death to enter mankind. The sting of death is