Two fruit trees.
Book I. Chapter LXII.
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But Satan the wicked was
envious, because of the consolation God had given them.
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So he prevented them, and
went into the cave and took the two figs, and buried them outside the
cave, so that Adam and Eve should not find them. He also had in
his thoughts to destroy them.
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But by God's mercy, as soon
as those two figs were in the earth, God defeated Satan's counsel
regarding them; and made them into two fruit-trees, that overshadowed
the cave. For Satan had buried them on the eastern side of it.
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Then when the two trees were
grown, and were covered with fruit, Satan grieved and mourned, and
said, "Better were it to have left those figs as they were; for
now, behold, they have become two fruit-trees, whereof Adam will eat
all the days of his life. Whereas I had in mind, when I buried
them, to destroy them entirely, and to hide them for aye.
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"But God has overturned
my counsel; and would not that this sacred fruit should perish; and He
has made plain my intention, and has defeated the counsel I had formed
against His servants."
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Then Satan went away ashamed,
of not having wrought out his design.
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