8人受引诱去吃知识树,结果人堕落了。堕落之人的后裔全然不倚靠神,他们依赖自己的知识。……严格地说,生命线是由堕落而蒙救赎的亚当开始,再继续经过亚伯、以诺、挪亚、亚伯拉罕、以撒、雅各和许多以色列人。在这条生命线上有挪亚的帐棚、亚伯拉罕的帐棚、帐幕和圣殿。知识线是由该隐开始,继续经过所有不敬虔的人。在知识线上有以诺城、巴别城、所多玛城、法老的积货城以及将生命线上的事物掳去的巴比伦城(创世记生命读经,二一一至二一二页)。
8Man was induced to eat of the tree of knowledge. As a result, man fell. The descendants of fallen man did not depend upon God at all. They relied upon their knowledge… Strictly speaking, the line of life began with Adam, who was fallen and redeemed, and continued through Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and so many Israelites. On this line of life we have the tent of Noah, the tent of Abraham, the tabernacle, and the temple. The line of knowledge began with Cain and continued through all the ungodly people. On the line of knowledge we have the city of Enoch, Babel, Sodom, the treasure cities of Pharaoh, and Babylon, which captured the things on the line of life. (Life-study of Genesis, p. 172)