{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Man then lived with God for his rule in a paradise at once\r\nphysical and spiritual. For neither was it a paradise only\r\nphysical for the advantage of the body, and not also spiritual\r\nfor the advantage of the mind; nor was it only spiritual to\r\nafford enjoyment to man by his internal sensations, and not\r\nalso physical to afford him enjoyment through his external\r\nsenses. But obviously it was both for both ends. But after\r\nthat proud and therefore envious angel (of whose fall I have\r\nsaid as much as I was able in the eleventh and twelfth books\r\nof this work, as well as that of his fellows, who, from being\r\nGod's angels, became his angels), preferring to rule with a\r\nkind of pomp of empire rather than to be another's subject,\r\nfell from the spiritual Paradise, and essaying to insinuate his\r\npersuasive guile into the mind of man, whose unfallen condition\r\nprovoked him to envy now that himself was fallen, he\r\nchose the serpent as his mouthpiece in that bodily Paradise\r\nin which it and all the other earthly animals were living with\r\nthose two human beings, the man and his wife, subject to<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_24\">[Pg 24]</a></span>\r\nthem, and harmless; and he chose the serpent because, being\r\nslippery, and moving in tortuous windings, it was suitable for\r\nhis purpose. And this animal being subdued to his wicked\r\nends by the presence and superior force of his angelic nature,\r\nhe abused as his instrument, and first tried his deceit upon\r\nthe woman, making his assault upon the weaker part of that\r\nhuman alliance, that he might gradually gain the whole, and\r\nnot supposing that the man would readily give ear to him, or\r\nbe deceived, but that he might yield to the error of the woman.\r\nFor as Aaron was not induced to agree with the people when\r\nthey blindly wished him to make an idol, and yet yielded to\r\nconstraint; and as it is not credible that Solomon was so blind\r\nas to suppose that idols should be worshipped, but was drawn\r\nover to such sacrilege by the blandishments of women; so we\r\ncannot believe that Adam was deceived, and supposed the\r\ndevil's word to be truth, and therefore transgressed God's law,\r\nbut that he by the drawings of kindred yielded to the woman,\r\nthe husband to the wife, the one human being to the only\r\nother human being. For not without significance did the\r\napostle say, \"And Adam was not deceived, but the woman\r\nbeing deceived was in the transgression;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_89_89\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_89_89\">[89]</a> but he speaks\r\nthus, because the woman accepted as true what the serpent\r\ntold her, but the man could not bear to be severed from his\r\nonly companion, even though this involved a partnership in\r\nsin. He was not on this account less culpable, but sinned\r\nwith his eyes open. And so the apostle does not say, \"He did\r\nnot sin,\" but \"He was not deceived.\" For he shows that he\r\nsinned when he says, \"By one man sin entered into the\r\nworld,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_90_90\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_90_90\">[90]</a> and immediately after more distinctly, \"In the likeness\r\nof Adam's transgression.\" But he meant that those are\r\ndeceived who do not judge that which they do to be sin; but\r\nhe knew. Otherwise how were it true \"Adam was not deceived?\"\r\nBut having as yet no experience of the divine\r\nseverity, he was possibly deceived in so far as he thought his\r\nsin venial. And consequently he was not deceived as the\r\nwoman was deceived, but he was deceived as to the judgment\r\nwhich would be passed on his apology: \"The woman\r\nwhom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me, and I did<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_25\">[Pg 25]</a></span>\r\neat.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_91_91\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_91_91\">[91]</a> What need of saying more? Although they were\r\nnot both deceived by credulity, yet both were entangled in\r\nthe snares of the devil, and taken by sin.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK FOURTEENTH.[1]","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-54"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e4c7630eece84fcddb3c72b245905ac68d7148da05c3bba21e6b0b8a0474b660","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GEN","chapter":3,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gen. iii. 12","verse":12,"verse_end":12}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_91_91","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Provider catalog reports public domain in the USA. 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