The nature of the Fall and the differing responses of Adam and Eve

32. …“Adam had lost much of his first perfection before his Eve was taken out of him; which was done to prevent worse effects of his fall, and to prepare a means of his recovery when his fall should become total, as it afterwards was, upon eating of the earthly tree of the knowledge of [...]

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The formation of Eve (by a cleft) and “leave and cleave”

40. The separation of Eve from Adam was, then, an exceptional instance within the human race of what is well known to take place in lower orders of life. Professor Agassiz, the naturalist, in describing gemmiparous or fissiparous reproduction, says: “A cleft or fission, at some part of [...]

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Correction: Eve NOT formed from “Adam’s rib”

39. … the ‘rib’ seems to be a mistranslation. The Hebrew word translated ‘rib’ in both the Authorized and Revised versions, occurs forty-two times in the O. T., and in this instance alone is it translated ‘rib.’ In the majority of cases it is translated ’side’ or ’sides,’ in other [...]

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Adam’s Responsibility

36. We do not know certainly how the decline in Adam began, but we should not overlook one fact: The man (the woman side of humanity being as yet undeveloped), was placed in the garden “to dress and keep it” (2:15). Two duties, not one, were laid upon Adam. This second word is the same [...]

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