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Adam and Eve, Albrecht Dürer

Genesis 3:10

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Genesis 3:10 (WEB)

The man said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; so I hid myself.”

Catechism · 4

Man's Capacity for God

  • §29Chapter One · Man's Capacity for GodRead at vatican.va

    “…part of believers; currents of thought hostile to religion; finally, that attitude of sinful man which makes him hide from God out of fear and flee his call.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. GS 19-21; Mt 13:22; Gen 3:8-10; Jon 1:3.

The Fall

  • §397Paragraph 7 · The FallRead at vatican.va

    “This is what man's first sin consisted of.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Gen 3:1-11 ; Rom 5:19.

  • §399Paragraph 7 · The FallRead at vatican.va

    “They become afraid of the God of whom they have conceived a distorted image - that of a God jealous of his prerogatives.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Gen 3:5-10.

  • §400Paragraph 7 · The FallRead at vatican.va

    “The harmony in which they had found themselves, thanks to original justice, is now destroyed: the control of the soul's spiritual faculties over the body is shattered; the union of man and woman becomes subject to tensions, their relations henceforth marked by lust and domination.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Gen 3:7-16.

Fathers and councils · 6

Augustine of Hippo

  • “For if an angel is able to use air, mist, cloud, fire, and any other natural substance or corporal species; and man to use face, tongue, hand, pen, letters, or any other significants, for the purpose of intimating the secret things of his own mind: in a word, if,…” — editor's note: [Judg. xiii. 20. This mysterious subject may be illustrated from Holy Scripture so as to justify our author’s very broad statement. It throws light on Gen.…

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  • “…of the Lord God, walking in the garden in the cool of the evening, and hid himself among the trees of the garden; and when God said, “Adam, where art thou?” replied, “I heard Thy voice, and I was afraid because I was naked, and I hid myself from Thy face.”” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 8–10

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John Chrysostom

Catena Aurea on Mark

  • JeromeCatena Aurea on Mark

    “The silence of Christ is the pardon for the defence or excuse of Adam. [Gen 3:10]” — the author cites it

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Tertullian

Gregory of Nazianzus

  • “This is why the heathen rage and the peoples imagine vain things; why tree is set over against tree, hands against hand, the one stretched out in self indulgence, the others in generosity; the one unrestrained, the others fixed by nails, the one expelling Adam, the other reconciling the ends of the earth.” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 6–23.

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Cross-references · 13

  • Cited together in Catechism §29.

  • Cited together in Catechism §29.

  • Cited together in Jerome on Mark 14:60–65 (Catena Aurea).

  • Cited together in Jerome on Mark 14:60–65 (Catena Aurea).

  • Cited together in Jerome on Mark 14:60–65 (Catena Aurea).

  • Cited together in Jerome on Mark 14:60–65 (Catena Aurea).

  • Cited together in Jerome on Mark 14:60–65 (Catena Aurea).

  • Cited together in Jerome on Mark 14:60–65 (Catena Aurea).

  • Cited together in Catechism §399.

  • Cited together in Catechism §400.

  • Cited together in Catechism §397.

  • Cited together in Catechism §400.

  • Cited together in Catechism §400.

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