Adam and Eve
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- proper noun
- Literature
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Adán y Eva
- Chaya, you understand, belongs to a religious family whose ancestors can be traced back to Adam and Eve.
He didn't need to to to condemn Adam and Eve in this way.
- He didn't need to to to condemn Adam and Eve in this way.
- People have been fighting over land since Adam and Eve, OK?
- So in Paradise Lost, which you're probably familiar with from school, Adam and Eve have to make their own choice.
- And we're constantly told that you are living the Adam and Eve archetype.
- If this world goes, yeah, but do we decide if Adam and Eve was real?
- In the book of Genesis, God creates Adam and Eve from clay, and they don't exist before that.
- And also to be created sinful because of, you know, Adam and Eve's transgression in the Garden of Eden.
- Now of course this is a reference to the biblical account in Genesis of Adam and Eve.
- And so, if not sin or a proneness towards sinning, what exactly was inaugurated by Adam and Eve's eating of the fruit?
- You were saying that in the left hand panel of the Garden of Delights, the law has not yet been given to Adam and Eve.
- And so part of the message in Genesis is, Hey, Adam and Eve, I want you to take this garden and turn the entire earth into a, a paradise.
- So Garden of Eden, to your point, Adam and Eve are there, they're hanging out.
- Yes, but the Bible teaches that the fall of Adam and Eve was cosmological.
- One has Adam and Eve being created at the same time.
- So after Adam and Eve are thrown out of paradise for becoming self-conscious, or when they become self-conscious, they're destined to work.
Examples
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You remember the Bible, Adam and Eve.
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Would it shock you to know that Adam and Eve had the same problems you have?
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One has Adam and Eve being created at the same time.
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We were like Adam and Eve.
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Like Adam and Eve before the fall.
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"Why Adam and Eve?" you may ask.
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"If you believe in the Bible, we're all descended from Adam and Eve.
Fiction book (1995) -
God has indeed given us free choice, and you, like Adam and Eve, have chosen wrongly.
Blog text (13) -
In the book of Genesis, the story of Adam and Eve explains how humanity began with the first man and woman.
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The teachings about Adam and Eve illustrate the consequences of choices made in the Garden of Eden.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward combination of two proper names that denote the first man and woman in the Bible; a learner who knows the individual meanings of 'Adam' and 'Eve' will readily infer it refers to that biblical pair. This reference is culturally widespread and compositionally transparent rather than idiomatic, so its meaning is directly derivable from the constituents.
Etymology
Adam and Eve comes from a Bible story about Adam and Eve, the first people made by God in the Garden of Eden. Because they are the first man and woman in the story, the name now stands for the 'first people' or the beginning of human life.