NOTES for Isa 3:13-14

Here we encounter a rethinking of Adam's feelings after he learned his nakedness and was driven out of paradise. These feelings will return to us in the last days of the world. 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 had understood after tasting the fruit.

We have a chance not to live in the memory of our 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 ability to love and be faithful to Christ, even in part, yet constantly wanting to learn more. Never stopping.

Falling and becoming distracted, striving for pleasures and rest, we must still strive to accept Adam in 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.