The Lie and Its Father

And the serpent said unto the woman, ye shall not surely die. Gen. 3:4 There can be no question about the fact, that it was the temptation by the Devil that completed the antithesis before the mind and consciousness of our first parents. There must have been, indeed, a certain silent language proceeding from the tree of knowledge of good and evil itself. For the tree was beautiful to behold and its fruit appeared good to eat. In the tree itself there was, there­fore, an appeal to the senses...