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Adam and Eve, Albrecht Dürer

Genesis 3:8

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Genesis 3:8 (WEB)

They heard the LORD God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

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 · 13

Origen

  • “…indicate a kind of motion, as it were, on His part, such as this, “They heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day,” we must understand them in this way, that it is by sinners that God is understood as moving, or as we understand the “sleep” of God, which is taken in a…” — editor's note: Cf. Gen. iii. 8.

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Irenaeus of Lyons

Gregory of Nyssa

  • “…steadfastness in righteousness,—that He moves or walks; as, in the case of Adam, the sacred history records God’s walking in the garden in the cool of the day, signifying thereby the fall of the first man into darkness, and, by the moving, his weakness and instability in regard to righteousness.” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 8.

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Catena Aurea on Mark

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    “For when Adam sinned, it is also written that he heard the voice of the Lord, walking in paradise, in the cool after mid-day [Gen 3:8]; and in that hour when the first Adam by sinning brought death into the world, in that same hour the second Adam by dying destroyed death.” — the author cites it

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Cyril of Jerusalem

Augustine of Hippo

Theodoret of Cyrus

  • “…retort that even in the Old Testament the divine Scripture says many things œconomically, as for instance, “Adam heard the voice of the Lord God walking,” and “I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it which has come to me; and if not I will know,” and again, “Now I…” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 8

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Hippolytus of Rome

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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  • Genesis 3:8 and Jonah 1:3 share the same wording (12 words).

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