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Library / Commentaries and Disputations on Genesis, Volume I

Book Six — the temptation and fall

A DISPUTATION: HOW LONG ADAM and Eve remained in Paradise

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A DISPUTATION: HOW LONG ADAM and Eve remained in Paradise.1

DISPUTATIO QUANDIU ADAM & Eva commorati sint in Paradiso.

Ex his verbis quaestio existit nec facilis explicatu, & dignissima iucundissimaque cognitu quanto tempore Adam & Eva in Paradiso commorati fuerint, utrum diuturna, an brevis atque adeo ne unius quidem diei eorum in Paradiso fuerit mansio.
From these words arises a question neither easy to explain, and most worthy and most pleasant to know: for how long a time Adam and Eve remained in Paradise — whether their stay in Paradise was long, or brief, and indeed not even of one day.2

Translator’s notes

  1. Major section divider: a new disputation on the length of Adam and Eve's stay in Paradise. ↩
  2. States the question of the disputation: how long Adam and Eve stayed in Paradise — long, or brief, or not even a single day. ↩