4These are the generations of heaven and earth, when they were created in the day, when our Lord God made the heaven, and the earth, 5and every plant of the field, before it shot up in the earth, and everie hearb of the ground before it sprang. For our Lord God had not rayned upon the earth; and man was not to til the earth. 6But a spring rose out of the earth, watering al the overmost part of the earth. 7Our Lord God therfore formed man of the slyme of the earth: 1. Cor. 15, 45.and [1] breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soule.
8And our Lord God had [2] planted a Paradise of pleasure from the beginning: wherin he placed man whom he had formed. 9And our Lord God brought forth of the ground al manners of trees, faire to behold, and pleasant to eate of: the tree of life also in the middle of Paradise: and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. 10And a river issued out of the place of pleasure to water Paradise, which from thence is divided into foure heades. 11The name of one is Phison: that is it which compasseth al the land of Hevilath, where gold groweth. 12And the gold of that land is very good: there is found bdelium, and the stone onyx. 13And the name of the second river is Gehon: that is it which compasseth al the land of Ethiopia. 14And the name of the third river is Tygris; that same passeth along by the Assirians. And the fourth river, the same is Euphrates.
15Our Lord God therfore tooke man, and put him in the Paradise of pleasure, to worke, and keepe it. 16And he commanded him saying: Of everie tree of Paradise eate thou: 17But ″ of the tree of knowledge of good and evil eate thou not. For in what day soever thou shalt eate of it, ″ thou shalt dye the death. 18Our Lord God also said: It is not good for man to be alone: let us make him a help like unto himselfe. 19Our Lord God therfore having formed of clay al beasts of the earth, and foules of the ayre; brought them to Adam, that he might see what to cal them: for al that Adam called any living creature, the same is his name.
20And Adam called al beasts by their names, and al foules of the ayre, and al cattel of the field: but unto Adam there was not found an helper like himselfe. Mat. 19, 5.
Mar. 10, 7.
1. Cor. 6, 16.
Eph. 5, 31.21Our Lord God therfore cast a dead sleep upon Adam: and when he was fast asleep, he tooke one of his ribbes, and filled up flesh for it. 22And our Lord God [3] built the ribbe which he tooke of Adam into a woman, and brought her to Adam. 23And Adam said: This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shal be called woman, because she was taken out of man. 24Wherfore man shal leave his father and mother, and shal cleave to his wife, and they shal be [4] two in one flesh. 25And they were both naked, to wit Adam and his wife; and were not ashamed.
- ↑ Mans soule is immediately created by God, not produced of other substance, as the souls of beastes and plants are.
- ↑ Whether this Paradise be now extant is uncertaine, though it be certaine that Enoch and Elias are yet living in earth S. Aug. l. 2. cont. Pelagi. c. 25. See Perereus. l. 3. q. 5. & l. 7. q. ultima.
- ↑ As we say brick is made of earth, and a house is built of bricke: so Adam was made of earth and Eve built of a ribbe of Adam. And that of one ribbe, as if God should build a house of one bricke, or as indeed he fed 5000. men with five loaves. Chris. ho. 15. S. Aug. Tract. 24. in Joan. S. Tho. p.1. q.92. a. 3.
- ↑ Not three, nor foure, nor more, for then two were changed to another number S. Jer. l. 1. cont. Jovi.
