"Yet the expectation of sexual excess in Augustine’s life leads people to add sexual scenes and themes to his story - incestuous feelings for his mother or homosexual feelings for his friend. The obsessive treatment of Augustine’s supposed sexual obsession is apparent in two well-known and repeatedly"
"People notice that there is a parallel between this “first sin” of The Testimony and Adam's fall in the garden of Eden. Though the gang hauls off a “huge load” (onera ingentia) of pears from the orchard, Augustine talks of only one tree - like the tree of the apple in Eden. He goes out of his way to"
"After Eve had eaten from the forbidden tree and offered him its fruit to eat along with her, Adam did not want to disappoint her, when he thought she might be blighted without his comforting support, banished from his heart to die sundered from him. He was not overcome by disordered desire of the fl"