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Chapter LV - The Conflict between God and Satan.
1 Then came the Word of God to Adam and Eve, and
raised them from their dead state, saying to them, "Why did
you come up here? Do you intend to go into the garden,
from which I brought you out? It cannot be today; but only
when the covenant I have made with you is fulfilled."
2 Then Adam, when he heard the Word of God, and the
fluttering of the angels whom he did not see, but only
heard the sound of them with his ears, he and Eve cried,
and said to the angels: --
3 "O Spirits, who wait on God, look at me, and at my
being unable to see you! For when I was in my former
bright nature, then I could see you. I sang praises as you
do; and my heart was far above you.
4 But now, that I have transgressed, that bright
nature is gone from me, and I am come to this miserable
state. And now I have come to this, that I cannot see you,
and you do not serve me like you used to do. For I have
become animal flesh.
5 Yet now, O angels of God, ask God with me, to
restore me to that wherein I was formerly; to rescue me
from this misery, and to remove from me the sentence of
death He passed on me, for having trespassed against Him.
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