The Fall of Man
event · 4 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
covering the shameful parts · eaten of the plant of disobedience · man's transgression · the Fall · the fig-leaf covering
spoken of as
1 expressionThe Fall“Adam's transgression”2 mentions
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber (Latin) · De Anima (Latin)
since indeed that prince both of the race and of transgression, Adam, willed what he transgressed in.
in the texts
Barlaam and Josaphat
The disobedience of Adam and Eve, leading to their exile from paradise and the entry of death into the world.
And the first man, having eaten of the plant of disobedience, is made an exile from the paradise of delight by the Creator, and, instead of that blessed life and undying manner of existence, falls — alas — into this wretched and miserable life, and at the last is condemned to death.
De Anima
The Genesis event of Adam and Eve covering themselves after gaining the knowledge of good and evil, cited as the pattern for puberty's onset of shame.
For if Adam and Eve, from the knowledge of good and evil, felt the need to cover their shameful parts, then from the moment we feel this very thing, we profess the knowledge of good and evil.
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber
The primal transgression of Adam against God's command, analyzed as an act of Adam's own free will rather than the devil's compulsion.
since indeed that prince both of the race and of transgression, Adam, willed what he transgressed in.
De Testimonio Animae
The primordial transgression of God's precept by man, brought about through Satan's deception and resulting in death and inherited condemnation for the human race.
Satan, in short, you pronounce in every vexation and disdain and detestation — Satan, whom we call the angel of malice, the contriver of all error, the adulterator of the whole world, through whom man, circumvented from the beginning so that he transgressed the precept of God, and on that account given over to death, thenceforth made the whole race, infected from his own seed, the transmitter of h …