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Library / Commentaries and Disputations on Genesis, Volume I

Book Four — the creation of the first human beings

A DISPUTATION ON THE PRECEPT given to Adam of not eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil

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A DISPUTATION ON THE PRECEPT given to Adam of not eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.1

DISPVTATIO DE PRAECEPTO dato Adae non edendi ex ligno scientiae boni & mali.

QVO sit horum verborum Domini explicatior & absolutior intelligentia; quatuor enodandae sunt quaestiones, quarum tractatu multa scitu digna lectori enotescent.
That the understanding of these words of the Lord may be the more explicit and complete, four questions are to be unraveled, in the treatment of which many things worth knowing will become known to the reader.2

Translator’s notes

  1. New disputation divider (rule above and below). ↩
  2. Programmatic sentence (large initial 'Q') announcing the four quaestiones of the disputation. ↩