Book of Adam

Adam, the handiwork of the Lord, lived with Eve in the Garden of Eden, which was situated in the East. Their food, which they also distributed to the lower animals, consisted of the fruit of the trees in the garden, the only nourishment then allowed to living beings. For their protection two angels were set apart, known as or the partakers of the majesty, called in Latin virtutes, from virtus, corresponding to kabod. But one day when the guarding angels had ascended to heaven to sing their ...