Forbidden fruit

The forbidden fruit is, according to the biblical account of the Genèse, the fruit of the Arbre of the knowledge of the good and the evil planted in the middle of the Jardin (called terrestrial paradise by certain authors).

God had prohibited the consumption of the fruit of the tree but the snake Nahash tried Eve which ate some then made some eat with Adam.

Even if the Pommier is generally quoted, quite simply because it is a current tree in Europe, the species of the tree is not indicated in the texts. Thus, according to interpretations, the forbidden fruit would be a Pomme, a Poire, a Figue or a grenade.

The frequent reference to apple could be due to the fact that in Latin, pomum means " fruit". Thus, when the painters illustrated the forbidden fruit they chose that which appeared best to correspond at the end pomum, the apple. According to other interpretations, the apple remained associated with the Original sin , because of Latin translation of the Vulgate and the Latin name of the tree malus, which indicates a “bad” tree as well, i.e. prohibited, that a simple apple tree. Because of this confusion, the apple can symbolize as well the sex act as prohibited knowledge.

Comment

This passage of the Bible is often quoted by the atheistic as the sign of a divine will of the religions to preserve the believers in ignorance. The religious commentators state them that to agree not to eat fruit of the tree of knowledge meant for the man that it agreed to preserve the statute of divine creature and that it relied on God to define what is well and what is badly.

The forbidden fruit is thus the symbol of the sin of pride , of the temptation of any human being to want to leave itself there without God, to want to only decide what is well or badly.

However, with that of many believers like to answer that God considered the man not yet ready to taste with the " fruits sacrés" but that it hoped to hoist it on the same level that him (it has creates the man with his image) thereafter but it was not thus. The expression: " The ways of the lord are impénétrables" lend themselves well to these theories.

It is the tree of life which is known as in the middle of the garden in Genèse 2,9. then the Verset ends in: “and the tree of the knowledge of the good and the evil “without it being known if this last is also in the medium.

Who wrote at another time “the knowledge of the evil is not necessary to the good? “. Is this St Augustin?

See too

Adam's apple
Forbidden fruit is also the name of a Belgian beer.

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