CHAPTER LXII

Two fruit trees.

1 But Satan the wicked was envious, because of the consolation God had given them.

1. So he prevented them, and went into the cave and took the two figs,

   and buried them outside the cave, so that Adam and Eve should not find them. He also had in his thoughts to destroy them.

2. But by God's mercy, as soon as those two figs were in the ground,

   God defeated Satan's counsel regarding them; and made them into two fruit trees, that overshadowed the cave. For Satan had buried them on the eastern side of it.

3. Then when the two trees were grown, and were covered with fruit,

   Satan grieved and mourned, and said, "It would have been better to have left those figs where they were; for now, behold, they have become two fruit trees, whereof Adam will eat all the days of his life. Whereas I had in mind, when I buried them, to destroy them entirely, and to hide them forever.

4. But God has overturned my counsel; and would not that this sacred

   fruit should perish; and He has made plain my intention, and has defeated the counsel I had formed against His servants."

5. Then Satan went away ashamed because he hadn't thought his plans all

   the way through.