When Adam perceived from the river
Eve and Lucifer,
trembling took hold upon him, (though) he was
courageous,
horror of the Devil's countenance filled him.
“My grief! O wandering Eve,
thy guide is betraying thee;
the man who comes journeying with thee here,
it is he who deceived thee in Paradise.
“Ah, sad Eve, without dear form,[1]
what brought thee from the River Tigris
without the warrant of the King of Justice,
without a pure accompanying angel?”
When Eve heard that,
the reproaches of Adam,
she fell to the ground,
she came near to speedy death.
(A long conversation follows between Adam and the Devil; Adam demands why the Devil pursues them with such perpetual hatred and, in reply, Lucifer recounts his fall from heaven, which he says was caused by his refusal to obey the command of God that he should worship Adam. This command he refused, because he,
- ↑ i.e. “whose form has been changed by her sojourn in the river.”
