“ Yet to face the fact of man’s fall is ultimately to be filled with hope, as to deny it is to despair. “No view of human nature,” says Bishop Lightfoot, “is so inexpressibly sad as that which leaves out the Fall. The existence of evil in its many forms . . . cannot be gainsaid; and, if this evil belongs to the essence of man as created, then there can be no prospect of relief here or hereafter.” “The way to the tree of life” is guarded, not that man might never return, but rather that he may. “ ⚔️❤️