When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.
⛓ Read Genesis 3 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The triad of "lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and the pride of life" mirrors Eve seeing that the tree was good for food (flesh), a delight to the eyes (eyes), and desirable to make one wise (pride). The fall narrative supplies the anatomy of worldly desire John condemns.
High confidenceEve's seeing, taking, and eating the fruit grounds Paul's claim that 'the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience.' The narrative of her being drawn in by the fruit is the event Paul interprets. It anchors the deception-and-transgression argument of verse 14.
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A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Eve seeing the tree 'a delight (epithymeton) to the eyes' couples desire/coveting with the first transgression; Paul's choice of coveting (epithymia) as the paradigm sin (7:7-8) resonates with this Edenic desire.
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A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
"Through the one man's disobedience many were made sinners" (5:19): "she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband, and he ate." Adam's specific act of disobedient eating is the trespass/parakoe Paul opposes to Christ's obedience (hypakoe).
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