The Apocalypse of Sedrach 54

The Apocalypse of Sedrach · The Ante-Nicene Fathers Volume IX: Recently Discovered Additions to Early Christian Literature and Commentaries of Origen by Philip Schaff

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IV. Sedrach saith to him: Chastisement and fire are thy discipline: they are bitter, my Lord: it were well for man if he had not been born: why then didst thou make him, my Lord? Why didst thou weary thine undefiled hands and create man, since thou didst not intend to have mercy on him? God saith to him: I made Adam the first creature and placed him in Paradise in the midst of the tree of life and said to him: Eat of all the fruits, but beware of the tree of life: for if thou eat of it, thou shalt die the death. But he transgressed my commandment, and being beguiled by the devil ate of the tree.