and the sin that of making wine. Many today perceive the fruit to be sex, which throws light on the barely suppressed guilt with which our contemporaries consider this subject but does not at all illuminate Genesis. We know that this is not the meaning of the tree, because God instructed the first couple to be fruitful and multiply even before warning them about the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil (in Gen. 1:28). What does the fruit symbolize? It symbolizes the fact that, although the man