The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 3

CHAPTER I

Of the Forbidden Fruit.

[Sidenote: _Opinions, of what kind the forbidden fruit was._]

That the Forbidden fruit of Paradise was an Apple, is commonly believed, confirmed by Tradition, perpetuated by Writings, Verses, Pictures; and some have been so bad _Prosodians_, as from thence to derive the Latine word _malum_, because that fruit was the first occasion of ev...