Chapter XII

 How darkness came between Adam and Eve.

 

 

1 Then Adam beat his chest, he and Eve, and they mourned the whole night until the crack of dawn, and they sighed over the length of the night in Miyazia.

 

2 And Adam beat himself, and threw himself on the ground in the cave, from bitter grief¹, and because of the darkness, and lay there as dead.

 

3 But Eve heard the noise he made in falling on the ground. And she felt about for him with her hands, and found him like a corpse².

 

4 Then she was afraid, speechless, and remained by him.

 

5 But the merciful Lord³ looked on the death of Adam, and on Eve's silence from fear of the darkness.

 

6 And the Word of God came to Adam and raised him from his death, and opened Eve's mouth that she might speak.

 

7 Then Adam stood up in the cave and said, "O God, why has light departed⁴ from us, and darkness covered us? Why did you leave us in this long darkness? Why do you plague⁵ us like this?

 

8 And this darkness, O Lord, where was it before it covered us? It is because of this that we cannot see each other.

 

9 For so long as we were in the garden, we neither saw nor even knew what darkness is. I was not hidden from Eve, neither was she hidden from me, until now that she cannot see me; and no darkness came over us to separate us from each other.

 

10 But she and I were both in one bright light. I saw her and she saw me. Yet now since we came into this cave, darkness has covered us, and separated us from each other, so that I do not see her, and she does not see me.

 

11 O Lord, will You then plague us with this darkness?"

 

1 grief   

n.悲伤，悲痛，悲伤的事，悲痛的缘由

参考例句：

• Don't allow yourself to sink into grief,it can do no good.不要使自己陷入悲哀之中，这样一点好处也没有。
• After her mother died,she abandoned herself to grief.母亲死后，她沉浸于悲痛之中。

2 corpse   

n.尸体，死尸

参考例句：

• What she saw was just an unfeeling corpse.她见到的只是一具全无感觉的尸体。
• The corpse was preserved from decay by embalming.尸体用香料涂抹以防腐烂。

3 lord   

n.上帝，主；主人，长官；君主，贵族

参考例句：

• I know the Lord will look after him.我知道上帝会眷顾他的。
• How good of the Lord not to level it beyond repair!上帝多么仁慈啊，竟没有让这所房子损毁得不可收拾！

4 departed   

a.(委婉的说法)已死的

参考例句：

• your dear departed brother 你挚爱的亡兄
• He departed from the text to tell an anecdote. 他偏离课文讲起了一则轶事。

5 plague   

n.瘟疫，鼠疫，祸患，灾难；v.烦扰，使痛苦

参考例句：

• Plague was then prevailing in that city.当时瘟疫正在该城流行。
• The plague once could wipe out a village.鼠疫曾一度可以夺走整个村庄村民的生命。