The Discovery of Genesis by Ethel R. Nelson

Author:Ethel R. Nelson [Nelson, Ethel R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Concordia Publishing House
Published: 1979-07-31T16:00:00+00:00

Lucifer carefully laid his snare of four attractive statements, all with the intent to deceive, which beguiled Eve into disobedience:

“You will not die.

“God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened.

“You will be like God.

[You will] “know good and evil” (Genesis 3:4,5).

There are additional symbols, and , for net, snare. Interestingly, the numeral four has similarities to each form of snare, for it can be compressed within a character-to , and anciently it was written or as . Eve’s downfall was to be caught in Lucifer’s snare of four deceptive statements.

“So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit and ate” (Genesis 3:6). Commemorating this sad historical event is the character , a second word for beginning—this time evidently indicating the beginning of sin. The scene is of a woman, by herself, eating the forbidden fruit. It takes three elements to construct this character: the woman ; secretly, alone A; and to indicate eating, a mouth . Two ancient renderings of this character especially support the interpretation: shows the radical secretly , like a fruit, actually disappearing into the open mouth of the woman . A more modified form depicts a hand feeding the mouth of the woman . Thus the entire episode of the genesis of sin is recorded in a single ideograph.

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