emmerich -14

Eve started to meet him, but turned back. 

There was a restlessness, a hesitancy about her movements. 

Again she started, as if intending to pass the tree, but once more hesitated, approached it from the left, and stood behind it, screened by its long, pendent leaves. The tree was broader above than below, and its wide, leafy branches drooped to the ground. Just within Eve’s reach hung a remarkably fine bunch of fruit. 

And now Adam approached. 

Eve caught him by the arm, and pointed to the talking animal, and he listened to its words. When Eve laid her hand on Adam’s arm, she touched him for the first time. He did not touch her, but the splendor around them grew dim [vervaagde].

I saw the animal pointing to the fruit... 

but he did not venture [waagde het niet] to snap it off [om het af te breken] for Eve. 

But when the longing for it arose in her heart, he broke off, and handed her the central and most beautiful piece of the clustering five.And now I saw Eve draw near to Adam, and offer him the fruit. Had he refused it, sin would not have been committed. 

I saw the fruit break, as it were, in Adam’s hand. 

He saw pictures in it, and it was as if he and Eve were instructed...

upon what they should not have known. 

The interior of the fruit was blood-red and full of veins. 

I saw Adam and Eve losing their brilliancy, and diminishing in stature. 

It was as if the sun went down. 

The animal glided down the tree, and I saw it running off on all fours.

I did not see the fruit taken into the mouth, as we nów take food in eating.

But it disappeared between Adam and Eve.

~bron~