rcy on you, My
creature; that I have not avenged you for your transgression against
Me, but in My pity for you I have promised you that at the end of the
great five and a half days I will come and save you."

8 Then God said again to Adam and Eve, "Get up, go down from here,
before the cherub with a sword of fire in his hand destroys you."

9 But Adam's heart was comforted by God's words to him, and he
worshipped before Him.

10 And God commanded His angels to escort Adam and Eve to the cave with
joy, instead of the fear that had come over them.

11 Then the angels took up Adam and Eve, and brought them down from the
mountain by the garden, with songs and psalms, until they arrived at
the cave. There the angels began to comfort and to strengthen them,
and then departed from them towards heaven, to their Creator, who had
sent them.

12 But after the angels had departed from Adam and Eve, Satan came with
shamefacedness, and stood at the entrance of the cave in which were
Adam and Eve. He then called to Adam, and said, "O Adam, come, let me
speak to you."

13 Then Adam came out of the cave, thinking he was one of God's angels
that was come to give him some good counsel.

Chapter LVII - "Therefore I fell. . . . "

1 But when Adam came out and saw his hideous figure, he was afraid of
him, and said to him, "Who are you?"

2 Then Satan answered and said to him, "It is I, who hid myself within
the serpent, and who spoke to Eve, and who enticed her until she obeyed
my command. I am he who sent her, using my deceitful speech, to
deceive you, until you both ate of the fruit of the tree and abandoned
the command of God."

3 But when Adam heard these words from him, he said to him, "Can you
make me a garden as God made for me? Or can you clothe me in the same
bright nature in which God had clothed me?

4 Where is the divine nature you promised to give me? Where is that
slick speech of yours that you had with us at first, when we were in
the garden?"

5 Then Satan said to Adam, "Do you think that when I have promised one
something that I would actually deliver it to him or fulfil my word?
Of course not. For I myself have never even thought of obtaining what
I promised.

6 Therefore I fell, and I made you fall by that for which I myself
fell; and with you also, whosoever accepts my counsel, falls thereby.

7 But now, O Adam, because you fell you are under my rule, and I am
king over you; because you hav