Genesis 3:11 (WEB)
God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
Catechism · 3
The Ninth Commandment
“It unsettles man's moral faculties and, without being in itself an offense, inclines man to commit sins.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Gen 3:11; Council of Trent: DS 1515.
The Fall
“This is what man's first sin consisted of.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Gen 3:1-11 ; Rom 5:19.
“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 · 4
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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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.
Read the whole comment“God calls out to Adam, Where art thou? as if ignorant where he was; and when he alleged that the shame of his nakedness was the cause (of his hiding himself), He inquired whether he had eaten of the tree, as if He were in doubt.” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 9, 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 · 12
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.25.
Cited together in Catechism §400.
Cited together in Catechism §397.
Cited together in Catechism §400.
Cited together in Catechism §2515.
Cited together in Catechism §2515.
Cited together in Catechism §2515.
Cited together in Catechism §2515.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.25.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.25.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.25.
Cited together in Catechism §400.