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Library / Commentaries and Disputations on Genesis, Volume I

Book Three — Paradise

DISPUTATION ON THE TREE of the Knowledge of Good and Evil

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DISPUTATION ON THE TREE of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.1

DISPUTATIO DE ARBORE Scientiae boni et mali.

GENESIS 2, verse 9. — Also the tree of the Knowledge of good and evil.2

GEN. 2. VERS. 9. — Lignum quoque Scientiae boni et mali.

Translator’s notes

  1. A new disputation begins: On the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. It will be subdivided into numbered QUAESTIONES, expounding the second clause of Gen 2:9. ↩
  2. Scripture lemma for the new disputation: the second clause of Gen 2:9, on the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, set off as a centered head with the side-reference "GEN. 2. VERS. 9." ↩