Adam and Eve



The Bible tells how God created the first man, Adam, and from one of his rib bones, created the first woman, 
Eve.  They lived together in the Garden of Eden, allowed to do what they wished ¡V but with one exception.  
They were not to eat the forbidden fruit of a particular tree.  A serpent (ie a snake) tempted Eve, and she 
persuaded Adam to eat some of the fruit with her.  God saw this happen and was angry.  He then expelled Adam 
and Eve from the Garden of Eden and decreed that, from that time on, they would have to endure the pains of 
ordinary mortal life.  In particular, they would physically die.  While they lived in the Garden of Eden, 
they were immortal; there was no death in paradise.  But once they had been expelled, things changed.  The 
transgression and expulsion from paradise of Adam and Eve is often referred to as the "Fall of Man" or just 
"The Fall."  A vast amount of western literature concerns itself with this story.  A number of common, sometimes 
colloquial, English expressions derive from it. 

(a)  No, I am sorry you can't do that.  It's forbidden fruit.  
(b)  You snake in the grass!    [An insult, unless you are talking jokingly to a friend]
(c)  Only a man has an Adam's apple.
(d)  The place has swings, and slides and all kinds of games and toys ¡V it's a children's paradise.
(e)  Shatin is a shopper's paradise.
(f)  Occasionally the phrase "a second fall of man" is used in literature to indicate a terrible crime or transgression.
(g)   I think you are heading for a fall.  
(h)  We live in a postlapsarian world ¡V the world after the transgression (the "lapse") of Adam and Eve.  






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