And the LORD God commanded the man, saying,
Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat:
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Ephrem The Syrian
AD 373
In the very midst he planted; the Tree of Knowledge, endowing it with wonder, hedging it in with dread, so that it might straightway serve as a boundary to the inner region of paradise. Two things did Adam hear; in that single decree: that they should not eat of it and that, by shrinking from it, they should perceive that it was not lawful to penetrate; further, beyond that tree.
