Paradise the First (5)

Forbidden under penalty of death We must now note especially that it was in connection with the tree of knowledge of good and evil that death, the universal tyrant, began to exercise its fearful reign over mankind. For we read in Genesis 2:16, 17: "And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it. For in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." Especially...