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
“…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
“This is what man's first sin consisted of.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Gen 3:1-11 ; Rom 5:19.
“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.
“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.…
Read the whole comment“…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
“When he heard, “Adam, where art thou?” ( Gen. iii. 9 ), he said, “I heard Thy voice, and I was afraid, because I am naked, and I hid myself.” ( Gen. iii. 10.)” — the author cites it
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Catena Aurea on Mark
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“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
“For both Eve and Adam, when it befell them to be “wise,” forthwith veiled what they had learnt to know.” — editor's note: Gen. ii. 27 (or in the LXX. iii. 1), and iii. 7, 10, 11.
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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.
