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First Adam and Eve: Chapter LXIX

Twelfth apparition of Satan to Adam and Eve, while Adam was praying over the offering upon the altar; when Satan smote him.

1.THEN Satan, the hater of all good, envious of Adam and of his offering through which he found favour with God, hastened and took a sharp stone from among sharp iron-stones; appeared in the form of a man, and went and stood by Adam and Eve.

2.Adam was then offering on the altar, and had begun to pray, with his hands spread unto God.

3.Then Satan hastened with the sharp iron-stone he had with him, and with it pierced Adam on the right side, when flowed blood and water, then Adam fell upon the altar like a corpse. And Satan fled.

4.Then Eve came, and took Adam and placed him below the altar. And there she stayed, weeping over him; while a stream of blood flowed from Adam’s side upon his offering.

5.But God looked upon the death of Adam. He then sent His Word, and raised him up and said unto him, “Fulfil thy offering, for indeed, Adam, it is worth much, and there is no shortcoming in it.”

6.God said further unto Adam, “Thus will it also happen to Me, on the earth, when I shall be pierced and blood shall flow blood and water from My side and run over My body, which is the true offering; and which shall be offered on the altar as a perfect offering.”

7.Then God commanded Adam to finish his offering, and when he had ended it he worshipped before God, and praised Him for the signs He had showed him.

8.And God healed Adam in one day, which is the end of the seven weeks; and that is the fiftieth day.

9.Then Adam and Eve returned from the mountain, and went into the Cave of Treasures, as they were used to do. This completed for Adam and Eve, one hundred and forty days since their coming out of the garden.

10.Then they both stood up that night and prayed to God. And when it was morning, they went out, and went down westward of the cave, to the place where their corn was, and there rested under the shadow of a tree, as they were wont.

11.But when there a multitude of beasts came all round them. It was Satan’s doing, in his wickedness; in order to wage war against Adam through marriage.

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Why does God say He will be pierced and bleed like Adam in this chapter?

God tells Adam, “Thus will it also happen to Me… when I shall be pierced and blood shall flow blood and water from My side,” to read Adam’s wound as a prefiguration of a later, redemptive sacrifice. The chapter makes Adam’s pierced side and the altar’s offering into a symbolic prototype: Adam’s suffering validates the offering and points forward to a perfect offering that will be offered on earth.

This language echoes themes found in Gospel scenes where blood and water flow from Jesus’ side (John 19:34) and in Revelation’s sacrificial imagery; the chapter treats Adam’s wound as an anticipatory sign of that saving offering. The book frames Adam’s healing and the completion of his ritual as proof that the prototype has cosmic significance and will be fulfilled in a future pierced One.

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