Was The Forbidden Fruit Really An Apple?
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"Apple symbolizes wisdom, because in the Bible, it is the fruit of the tree "that gives the knowledge of what is good and what is evil"1(Genesis 2:9), which Adam and Eve are forbidden to eat. God had said "You may eat the fruit …
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The phrase “forbidden fruit” comes to us from the Bible, from the Book of Genesis. When God created Adam and Eve, the first man and woman, he placed a tree in the Garden of Eden to test them. The term “forbidden fruit” is …
Did Eve Offer Adam An Apple?
It’s commonly believed that Eve tempted Adam with an apple but I can’t find anything in my bible to suggest that the fruit in question was an apple.
Was it an apple, and if not, then why did people like John Milton explicitly use the word apple?
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Although the forbidden fruit mentioned in the Book of Genesis is commonly believed to have been an apple, and it is more often than not depicted as one, the Bible doesn’t in fact state exactly what kind of fruit it was, and the original Hebrew texts only say “tree”.
Early Latin translations used the word “mali”, which means both “evil” and “apple”, and from about the 12th century onwards, both German and French artists generally depicted the fruit as an apple.
Yes, the bible stated it’s an apple but didn’t even describe it, the color, texture and what tree it was from.
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Probably they just stated and believed it was an apple to not be confronted with another question: “What is the forbidden fruit?”