Adam

Adam (Hebrew: אָדָם‎, Arabic: آدم‎) was, according to the Book of Genesis, Bereshitt, and the Qur'an, the first man created by God and noted in subsequent Jewish, Christian and Islamic commentary.

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• This is now bone of my bones
  and flesh of my flesh;
  she shall be called 'woman',
  for she was taken out of man.
  • Genesis 2:23.

• God: Where are you?
  Adam:I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.
  God: Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?
  Adam:The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.
  • Genesis 3:9-12.

• God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.
  • Genesis 4:25.

• Lord of the world, must I and my ass eat at one crib?
  • Upon being told that he would have to eat the herbs of the ground, reported in Charles Taylor, The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles (1886), p. 14.

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• When Adam dalf and Eve span, go spire – if thou may spede –
  Where was than the pride of man that now marres his mede?
  • When Adam delved and Eve spun, go ask – if you may succeed –
    Where then was the pride of man, which now deprives him of his reward?
  • "When Adam dalf and Eve span", line 1; Celia Sisam and Kenneth Sisam (eds.) The Oxford Book of Medieval English Verse (1970) p. 617. Translation: ibid. p. 404.
  • Sometimes attributed to Richard Rolle. Adapted by John Ball during the Peasants' Revolt as "When Adam dalf, and Eve span, who was thanne a gentilman".

• Adam lay ibounden,
  Bounden in a bond;
  Four thousand winter
  Thoght he not too long;
  And all was for an appil,
  An appil that he tok.
  • Adam lay bound,
    Bound up in a bond.
    Four thousand winters
    He thought not too long.
    And all was for an apple,
    An apple that he took.
  • "Adam lay ibounden", line 1; Sir Edmund K. Chambers and Frank Sidgwick (eds.) Early English Lyrics ([1907] 1972) p. 102. Translation: Joseph Glaser Middle English Poetry in Modern Verse (2007) p. 85.

• When Adam sinned it was not he who cried, 'God, where art Thou?' It was God who cried, 'Adam, where art thou?'
  • Aiden Wilson Tozer, Worship: The Missing Jewel.

• In the time of the First Manifestation the Primal Will appeared in Adam.
  • Báb, Dalá’Il-I-Sab‘ih (The Seven Proofs).

• Only the soul that is naked and unashamed, can be pure and innocent, even as Adam was in the primal garden of humanity.
  • Sri Aurobindo, Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913).

• The first idea was not our own. Adam
  In Eden was the father of Descartes
  And eve made air the mirror of herself,

  Of her sons and of her daughters.

  • Wallace Stevens, It Must Be Abstract, part IV.

• Oh, but of course the story of Adam and Eve was only ever symbolic, wasn't it? Symbolic?! So Jesus had himself tortured and executed for a symbolic sin by a non-existent individual? Nobody not brought up in the faith could reach any verdict other than "barking mad". (Part 2, 00:30:25)
  • Richard Dawkins, The Root of All Evil? (January 2006), Part 2: "The Virus Of Faith".

• Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.
  • Don Miller, Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books).

• That man, the unsubmissive and first, stands in the opening chapter of every legend mankind has recorded about its beginning. Prometheus was chained to a rock and torn by vultures--because he had stolen the fire of the gods. Adam was condemned to suffer--because he had eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge. Whatever the legend, somewhere in the shadows of its memory mankind knew that its glory began with one and that that one paid for his courage.
  • Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead (1943), part IV.

• Adam
  Had 'em.
  • Strickland Gillilan, "Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes", also known as "Fleas" (often misattributed to Ogden Nash).