270 THE KING'S MIRROR 



him subject to your dominion like all the other beasts 

 of the earth. I warned you both to commit no sin and 

 told you to look for death, if you did. Now your deed 

 appears no better in your defense than before in the 

 transgression; wherefore you shall suffer the death with 

 which I threatened you. Though you may not immedi- 

 ately fall down dead, you shall, nevertheless, in your 

 death suffer a long punishment for your offence, and all 

 your offspring shall be responsible with you for this 

 transgression. And the while that you live upon earth 

 you shall suffer sorrowful distress instead of enjoying 

 the blissful freedom which you knew not how to keep. 

 And whereas thou didst transgress before Adam, I will 

 increase thy troubles beyond what you are both to suf- 

 fer: thou shalt be subject to the control of thy husband 

 and to all his commands, and shalt therefore seem of 

 lesser importance and lower in the sight of thy sons. 

 The children that thou shalt conceive in lustful passion 

 thou shalt bring forth in pain and imminent peril; it 

 shall also be thy duty to give thy children all forms of 

 service in toil and troublesome care while bringing them 

 up." 



Then God said: " Adam has now become as wise as 

 any one of us, knowing good and evil. Have care that he 

 does not eat from the tree of life without permission, 

 as he did of the apples of knowledge, lest he live eter- 

 nally in his guilt." Thereupon God appointed Cherubim 

 to guard the path leading to the tree of life with a flam- 

 ing sword which constantly turned its fiery edge in 

 every direction so that none could pass forward with- 

 out permission. Then God said to Adam: "Because 



