It gives me fruit with all its might,
Apples, peaches, pears and quinces,
I’m sure we should all be happy as princes.
It’s quite absurd, of course, but just suppose the Tree of Knowledge in that First Garden has been a Tutti-Frutti Tree instead of an Apple Tree! With seven separate kinds of fruit to choose from, all equally forbidden and, for that reason, equally desirable, how could Eve ever have decided which one to pluck?
And with Eve’s hesitation Sin would have been lost to the world!
Let us give thanks that the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was not a Tutti-Frutti Tree.
