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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353727" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Genesis BK XIII</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">ll. 684-703) Long she pled, and urged him all the day to that<br>dark deed, to disobey their Lord's command. Close stood the evil<br>fiend, inflaming with desire, luring with wiles, and boldly<br>tempting him. The fiend stood near at hand who on that fatal<br>mission had come a long, long way. He planned to hurl men down<br>to utter death, mislead them and deceive them, that they might<br>lose the gift of God, His favour and their heavenly realm. Lo! <br>well the hell-fiend knew they must endure God's anger and the<br>pains of hell, suffer grim misery and woe, since they had broken<br>God's commandment, when with his lying words he tricked the<br>beauteous maid, fairest of women, unto that deed of folly, so<br>that she spake according to his will; and aided her in tempting<br>unto evil the handiwork of God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(ll. 704-716) Over and over the fairest of women pled with Adam,<br>until she began to incline his heart so that he trusted the<br>command the woman laid upon him. All this she did with good<br>intent, and knew not that so many evils, such grim afflictions,<br>would come upon mankind, when she was moved to hearken to the<br>counsels of the evil herald; but she hoped to win God's favour by<br>her words, showing such token and such pledge of truth unto the<br>man, that the mind of Adam was changed within his breast, and his<br>heart began to bend according to her will.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(ll. 717-726) From the woman he took both death and hell,<br>although it did not bear these names, but bore the name of fruit.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sleep of death and fiends' seduction; death and hell and<br>exile and damnation -- these were the fatal fruit whereon they<br>feasted. And when the apple worked within him and touched his<br>heart, then laughed aloud the evilhearted fiend, capered about,<br>and gave thanks to his lord for both:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(ll. 726-749) &quot;Now have I won thy promised favour, and wrought<br>thy will! For many a day to come is man undone, Adam and Eve! <br>God's wrath shall be heavy upon them, for they have scorned His<br>precepts and commandments. Wherefore they may no longer hold<br>their heavenly kingdom, but they must travel the dark road to<br>hell. Thou needest not feel sorrow in thy heart, as thou liest<br>in thy bonds, nor mourn in spirit that men should dwell in heaven<br>above, while we now suffer misery and pain in realms of darkness,<br>and through thy pride have lost our high estate in heaven and<br>goodly dwellings. God's anger was kindled against us because in<br>heaven we would not bow our heads in service before the Holy<br>Lord. It pleased us not to serve Him. Then was God moved to<br>wrath and hard of heart, and drove us into hell; cast a great<br>host into hell-fire, and with His hands prepared again in heaven<br>celestial thrones, and gave that kingdom to mankind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(ll. 750-762) &quot;Blithe be thy heart within thy breast! For here<br>to-day are two things come to pass: the sons of men shall lose<br>their heavenly kingdom, and journey unto thee to burn in flame;<br>also heart-sorrow and affliction are visited on God. Whatever<br>death we suffer here is now repaid on Adam in the wrath of God<br>and man's damnation and the pangs of death. Therefore my heart<br>is healed, my soul untrammelled in my breast. All our injuries<br>are now avenged, and all the evil that we long have suffered. <br>Now will I plunge again into the flame, and seek out Satan, where<br>he lieth in hell's shadows, bound with chains.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(ll. 762-769) Then the foul fiend sank downward to the wide-flung<br>flames and gates of hell wherein his lord lay bound. But Adam<br>and Eve were wretched in their hearts; sad were the words that<br>passed between them. They feared the anger of the Lord their<br>God; they dreaded the wrath of the King of heaven. They knew<br>that His command was broken.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(ll. 770-790) The woman mourned and wept in sorrow (she had<br>forfeited God's grace and broken His commandment) when she beheld<br>the radiance disappear which he who brought this evil on them had<br>showed her by a faithless token, that they might suffer pangs of<br>hell and untold woe. Wherefore heartsorrow burned within their<br>breasts. Husband and wife they bowed them down in prayer,<br>beseeching God and calling on the Lord of heaven, and prayed that<br>they might expiate their sin, since they had broken God's<br>commandment. They saw that their bodies were naked. In that<br>land they had as yet no settled home, nor knew they aught of pain<br>or sorrow; but they might have prospered in the land if they had<br>done God's will. Many a rueful word they uttered, husband and<br>wife together. And Adam spake unto Eve and said:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(ll. 791-820) &quot;O Eve! a bitter portion hast thou won us! Dost<br>thou behold the yawning gulf of hell, sunless, insatiate? Thou<br>mayest hear the groans that rise therefrom! The heavenly realm<br>is little like that blaze of fire! Lo! fairest of all lands is<br>this, which we, by God's grace, might have held hadst thou not<br>hearkened unto him who urged this evil, so that we set at naught<br>the word of God, the King of heaven. Now in grief we mourn that<br>evil mission! For God Himself bade us beware of sin and dire<br>disaster. Now thirst and hunger press upon my heart whereof we<br>formerly were ever free. How shall we live or dwell now in this<br>land if the wind blow from the west or east, south or north, if<br>mist arise and showers of hail beat on us from the heavens, and<br>frost cometh, wondrous cold, upon the earth, or, hot in heaven,<br>shineth the burning sun, and we two stand here naked and<br>unclothed? We have no shelter from the weather, nor any store of<br>food. And the Mighty Lord, our God, is angry with us. What<br>shall become of us? Now I repent me that I prayed the God of<br>heaven, the Gracious Lord, and of my limbs He wrought thee for my<br>helpmeet, since thou hast led me unto evil and the anger of my<br>Lord. Well may I repent to all eternity that ever I beheld thee<br>with mine eyes!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Caedmon">Caedmon</a><div class=q>
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