Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 633

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633. Moreover, they take pleasure in dining for a long time, not on account of the luxury of foods, but because companionship is more enjoyable while they are also sitting and eating. They do not sit on chairs or benches, nor on elevated grassy mounds, nor on grass, which they avoid like something unclean beneath them; but they put leaves under them, and when I wanted to know what leaves they were, they affirmed it when I named them fig leaves, such as Adam and Eve girded themselves with [Gen. 3:7] before they were provided with sheepskin tunics. 1748, the 2nd day of February.


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