Adam is cautious—but too late.
Book I. Chapter XXXIX.
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Then Adam returned to Eve,
and said to her, "Arise, and take a fig for thyself, and I will
take another; and let us go to our cave."
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Then Adam and Eve took each a
fig and went towards the cave; the time was about the setting of the
sun; and their thoughts made them long to eat of the fruit.
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But Adam said to Eve, "I
am afraid to eat of this fig. I know not what may come upon me
from it."
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So Adam wept, and stood
praying before God, saying, "Satisfy my hunger, without my having
to eat this fig; for after I have eaten it, what will it profit
me? And what shall I desire and ask of Thee, O God, when it is
gone?"
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And he said again, "I am
afraid to eat of it; for I know not what will befall me through
it."
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