St. Chrysostom first recalls that the punishment of our first parents should make us attentive and vigilant to avoid sin, and then he explains why Adam gave his wife the name of Eve. - 2.-3. The garments of skins of which the Lord clothed them, testify his kindness, and warn us to avoid the luxury and sumptuousness of the garments. - The speaker takes the opportunity of a severe lesson to the rich, then he explains, as an ironical fulfillment of the promises of the devil, this saying: "Here Adam is like one of us. It was also by a merciful effect that God chased Adam out of the earthly paradise, before he had eaten the fruit of the tree of life; because immortality would have led him always to sin. He also compelled her to live with the earthly paradise, so that the sight of this place might remind her of her fault, and he subjected her to hard work so that he would not become too attached to the earth. life. 4. With regard to these words: "Adam knew his wife," St. Chrysostom observes that virginity was the first state of Adam and Eve, and he points out its excellence. 5. Then he says that, if God accepted the gifts of Abel, and rejected those of Cain, it was because of their inner dispositions, and he dwelled at length on the kindness with which the Lord spoke to Cain, and sought inspire him with better feelings. 6. Finally he concludes with a few words on the care that we must have to flee from the sin into which Cain fell.
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