He then
called to Adam, and said, "O Adam, come, let me speak to you."
13 Then Adam came out of the cave, thinking he was one
of God's angels that was come to give him some good counsel.
Chapter LVII - "Therefore I fell. . . . "
1 But when Adam came out and saw his hideous figure,
he was afraid of him, and said to him, "Who are you?"
2 Then Satan answered and said to him, "It is I, who
hid myself within the serpent, and who spoke to Eve, and
who enticed her until she obeyed my command. I am he who
sent her, using my deceitful speech, to deceive you, until
you both ate of the fruit of the tree and abandoned the
command of God."
3 But when Adam heard these words from him, he said to
him, "Can you make me a garden as God made for me? Or can
you clothe me in the same bright nature in which God had
clothed me?
4 Where is the divine nature you promised to give me?
Where is that slick speech of yours that you had with us at
first, when we were in the garden?"
5 Then Satan said to Adam, "Do you think that when I
have promised one something that I would actually deliver
it to him or fulfil my word? Of course not.
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