The Podvig with Joel Dunn

35: The Problem with the Garments of Leaves

There were two main problems with the garments of leaves. The garments were taken from a tree that didn’t belong to Adam and the woman as a selfish, external sacrifice, and, The leaves were an insufficient cover for their sin because they were too different from man. 

Bonus Episode: A Mid-Fast Meditation (Isaiah 58)

Here's some encouragement from Holy Scripture as we approach the mid-point of the great fast. "And you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach" Isaiah 58:12

34: The Garments of Leaves

After The Fall, Adam and the woman's instinct for self-preservation resulted in them taking and making clothing from fig leaves.  They dimly perceived their lack of self-sufficiency and attempted to cover themselves, to hide their shame, and to hold themselves together.  

33: Stripped of Glory: Unveiling the Biblical Symbolism of Adam and Eve’s Nakedness

According to the Genesis 3 account of the fall of Man, the first and most immediate result of Adam and Eve’s consumption of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil was the realization that they were naked.  According to St. Ambrose of Milan: "Whoever has lost the covering of his nature and virtue is naked."

32: The Law Written on Hearts of Flesh

The law written by the hand of God on stone tablets represents the law’s inability to enliven the dead, for when Moses descended the mountain, the people had already created the golden calf.  Therefore, the tablets were remade and Moses wrote on the stone tablets. But Christ, who fulfilled the law and took His life back up again, now writes the law on living hearts of flesh. Visit https://thepodvig.com to sign up now! Support the show! https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thepodvigpod/support