NOTES for Isa 3:13-14
Here we encounter a rethinking of what Adam felt when he learned that he was naked and after being driven from paradise. That this feeling will return to us in the last days of the world. That everyone will remember his own exile. Adam could have taken the path of repentance, but it is not known whether he could stop knowing what he understood after tasting the fruit. We have a chance not to live in the memory of our own fall, but to follow Christ toward salvation. Toward the forgiveness of sins and of the fall as such. We will need all our will and all our capacity to love and be faithful to Christ. Even if only in part, yet constantly desiring to learn more. Never stopping. Falling and becoming distracted, striving for pleasures and rest, and all the same striving to accept Adam within ourselves. To fall on our knees before the Lord and ask Him to grant us forgiveness and forgetfulness of our knowledge of good and evil.