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GENESIS | 3:18 thorns — GEN411 [W]hen man changed the direction toward wh...

GEN411 [W]hen man changed the direction toward which he tended and took as his objective the very thing a previous commandment had bidden him not to aim at, he was driven out of the Garden of Eden.  This was the punishment corresponding to his disobedience; it was measure for measure.  He had been given license to eat good things and to take pleasure in ease and tranquility.  When, however, he became greedy, followed his pleasures and his imaginings, and ate what he had been forbidden to eat, he was deprived of everything and had to eat the meanest kinds of food, which he had not used as aliment before – and this only after toil and labor. EWM 132

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