This series from Jaques-Benigne Bossuet’s Elevations on the Mysteries, and specifically the Fifth Day, is complete. The table of contents for this is below. There is more here on the Bossuet Project.
- The snake.
- The temptation. Eve is attacked before Adam.
- The tempter proceeds by underhanded questioning to first produce a doubt.
- Answer of Eve and reply of Satan who reveals himself.
- The temptation and the fall of Adam. Reflections of Saint Paul.
- Adam and Eve perceived their nudity.
- Enormity of Adam’s sin.
- The presence of God is fearful for sinners: our first parents increase their crime by seeking excuses.
- The order of God’s Justice.
- More excuses.
- Eve’s torment and how it is changed into a cure.
- Adam’s torture, and first the work.
- The clothes and the injuries of the air.
- Following the torture of Adam, the derision of God.
- Death, true punishment of sin.
- Eternal death.
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