data of Genesis 1 and 2. Even after the fall Adam and his contemporaries must have known something of the creation narrative; piety could not have existed on any other basis. How much more necessary is this conclusion respecting Adam’s knowledge if we envisage a state of continued and confirmed integrity. It is inconceivable that Adam would have been ignorant of the fact that in six days God made heaven and earth and on the seventh day rested. In other words, the increase of knowledge would necessarily