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GRRA'I'IOS OP EVE. 5
rivcr, divided into four bmnches, watcrecl tl~c whole garden.
3. It was in this garden of delights tl~ut Cocl placctl nlm,
that hc nlight cultiv:lte it for his orvn pleasu~c w1~1 occupation.
Gocl thcn co~~~nlanrlcd nlttn, saying : '' Of every tree of
Paradise thou shalt eat, but or thc tree of Irno~vledgc of goocl
ancl evil thou shalt ilot cat ; for what, day soever tllou ~ hdt
eat of it, thou shalt tlic the death."
4, Atlam was still alone on thc earth. Hence God said:
'[ It is not good br man to be alone ; let 11s make hi111 n help
like 111zto lzi~usclf." T!;eii Gocl caused all the animals to
come bcfbro Adarn, that he might give to each its name. But
for A(l.zm there was not fourlrl a help likc unto himsclf; there-
fore, casting :L tlccp sleep upon Ail:~m, God to(?k one of his
ribs and furnzcd of it a, woman. TTThcn Adam awoke, Gocl
brought to hi111 his wife ; and Adam rejoiced to see nnotller
being like himself. Hc called her Eve, that is, Mother of
the Living.
QUESTIONS.
1. What did God say when He crentccl man? How did IIe creak
Inan? What \us the first rnnn callctl ? Bow is man the image of
God, ant1 how the likeness of God ? 2. What clid Gocl, in IIia fipecial
goodness, create express1 y for Inan ? What was in tkc garden, and
what stood in the middle of it? 3. What commantlment did God
give to man? 4. What did God fisy, seeing Adm~ still alone on the
earth? Why did God causc all the ntlimals to como before Adatn P
Row did God create s hclyu~ate for Ada~n? Whsb did Adam call
her P
CHAPTER IV.
The Fall of ozlr Fi~st Parents.
He is rc liar, nnd the fither thereof.--John, 8,4.
F a11 thc animals that God ]>ad placed npon the earth,
0 none was more cru~uing than the serpent. Hence the
devil, who was envious of the happiness of our first parents,
made use of him in order to seduce them.