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10 But God had patience with Adam, and let him and Eve
remain in the cave until they had fulfilled the forty days.
11 But as to Adam and Eve, their strength and flesh
withered from fasting and praying, from hunger and thirst;
for they had not tasted either food or drink since they
left the garden; nor were the functions of their bodies yet
settled; and they had no strength left to continue in
prayer from hunger, until the end of the next day to the
fortieth. They were fallen down in the cave; yet what
speech escaped from their mouths, was only in praises.
Chapter LX - The Devil appears like an old man.
He offers "a place of rest."
1 Then on the eighty-ninth day, Satan came to the
cave, clad in a garment of light, and girt about with a
bright girdle.
2 In his hands was a staff of light, and he looked most awful;
but his face was pleasant and his speech was sweet.
3 He thus transformed himself in order to deceive Adam
and Eve, and to make them come out of the cave, before they
had fulfilled the forty days.
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