Tree of Knowledge
Tree of Knowledge · The Forbidden Tree at the Centre of Eden
One of the two sacred trees at the centre of the Garden of Eden in Genesis 2:9, called the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. God commanded Adam, "of the fruit of this tree you shall not eat, for in the day you eat of it you shall surely die," Genesis 2:17, but the serpent seduced Eve, who ate and gave to Adam, and at once their eyes were opened and they knew they were naked, sewing fig leaves for cover, Genesis 3:1-7. The later iconography of an apple comes from the Latin pun on malum, evil, and malum, apple.
