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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun In the Bible, the tree in the Garden of Eden whose forbidden fruit Adam and Eve tasted.
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The Tree of Knowledge was a grapevine, and Eve took “of its fruit” (Gen. 3: 6) — i.e., what came forth from the fruit: she pressed the grapes and gave the wine to Adam.
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If you believe that the serpent tempted Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden with an apple from the Tree of Knowledge, that is a factual claim.
The Volokh Conspiracy » General White Attitudes Towards Intermarriage with Blacks: 2009
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The command - ment not to eat of the Tree of Knowledge was the commandment not to be cunning, thus avoiding all the vices attendant upon its use.
PRIMITIVISM GEORGE BOAS 1968
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Similarly the Tree of Knowledge is a symbol, a symbol of “the centrality of the soul and its ordered integrity.”
PRIMITIVISM GEORGE BOAS 1968
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The Tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.
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The Tree of Knowledge is a Christmas tree or a holiday coniferous evergreen, if you prefer, which for three years had enjoyed a place on the lawn next to the more traditional yuletide symbols.
The New Yorker Macy Halford 2010
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Local Liberal-National Party MP Vaughan Johnson says the memorial to the Tree of Knowledge is a wonderful link to Australia's past.
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Local Liberal-National Party MP Vaughan Johnson says the memorial to the Tree of Knowledge is a wonderful link to Australia's past.
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After all, it was Eve who first ate that apple promising the Tree of Knowledge.
Brenda Peterson: Confessions of an APPLEaholic: From Addiction to Sobriety Brenda Peterson 2011
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After all, it was Eve who first ate that apple promising the Tree of Knowledge.
Brenda Peterson: Confessions of an APPLEaholic: From Addiction to Sobriety Brenda Peterson 2011
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