Genesis 2:15

• §378Paragraph 6 · ManRead at vatican.va

  “Work is not yet a burden,” — Catechism footnote: Gen 2:15; cf. 3:17-19

Tertullian

• Tertullian, Against Hermogenes Chapter 3

  “Then also the Scripture added the name Lord: “And the Lord God, Deus Dominus, took the man, whom He had formed;” “And the Lord God commanded Adam.”” — editor's note: Gen. ii. 15.

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• Tertullian, On Patience Chapter 5

  “Innocent he was, and in intimate friendship with God, and the husbandman of paradise.” — editor's note: Colonus. Gen. ii. 15.

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Athanasius of Alexandria

• Athanasius of Alexandria, On the Incarnation of the Word §5

  “For death, as I said above, gained from that time forth a legal hold over us, and it was impossible to evade the law, since it had been laid down by God because of the transgression, and the result was in truth at once monstrous and unseemly.” — editor's note: Gen. ii. 15.

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• Genesis 3:17

  Cited together in Catechism §378.

• Genesis 3:18

  Cited together in Catechism §378.

• Genesis 3:19

  Cited together in Catechism §378.

• Galatians 3:19

  Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Word §5.

• Genesis 1:1

  Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 3.

• Genesis 1:3

  Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 3.