And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to work it and to keep it.
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Symeon the New Theologian
AD 1022
In the beginning man was created with a nature inclined to work, for in paradise Adam was enjoined to till the ground and care for it, and there is in us a natural bent for work, the movement toward the good. Those who yield themselves to idleness and apathy, even though they may be spiritual and holy, hurl themselves into unnatural subjection to passions.
