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45 "And Adam knew about his wife Eve that she had conceived by Sammael the [wicked] angel of the Lord [Sammael was evidently another name for Azazel or Satan], and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. He resembled the upper ones [angels] and not the lower ones, and she [therefore] said, 'I have acquired a man, indeed, an angel of the Lord." This ancient Jewish commentary on Genesis 4:1 explicitly tells us that what happened in the garden of Eden was a sexual union between a wicked angel of the Lord -- Sammael -- and Eve. This wicked angel was undoubtedly another name for Lucifer, or Satan the devil! Tertullian, one of the early church fathers, in his treatise On Patience, also discusses this event briefly. He says: "Having been made pregnant by the seed of the devil . . . she brought forth a son" (On Patience, 5:15). "The serpent came into her and she became pregnant with Cain, as it says, ‘And the man knew his wife Eve.' What did he know? That she was already pregnant [from someone else]" (Pirgei deR.. Eliezer 21). During the first centuries after Christ, in the Gnostic Gospel of Philip, the same idea is stated. We read in this work composed during the first few centuries after Christ: "First adultery came into being, afterward murder. And he [Cain] was begotten in adultery, for he was the child of the serpent. So he became a murderer, just like his father, and killed his brother" (Gnostic Gospel of Philip 61:5-10). "I was a pure virgin and did not go outside my father's house; I guarded the rib that [Eve] was built [from] . . . nor did the Destroyer [Satan], the deceitful serpent, defile the purity of my virginity" (4 Maccabees 18:7-8). Again, the inference is that these ancient people were aware that something more happened in the Garden of Eden than just the eating of some forbidden physical "fruit." As Eve was "totally seduced," or "completely, wholly seduced," this would or could imply that she was also sexually seduced by the devil, appearing as a serpent, or an angelic creature. Interestingly, one of the Hebrew words for "serpent" is saraph and means "burning, i.e., poisonous serpent; spec. saraph or symbol. creature (from their copper color): -- fiery (serpent), seraph" (Strong's Concordance, #8314). This word describes both heavenly seraphim (see Isaiah 6:2-6), as well as fiery serpents on the earth (Numbers 21:8). Satan must have appeared in a very seductive, alluring form in his seduction of Eve. She obviously didn't know what she was getting into, when she listened to his Is this possible? In Targum Pesudo-Jonathan on Genesis 4:1, we read: In an another ancient Jewish commentary, Pirgei deR. Eliezer, we read: Interestingly, in the book of 4 Maccabees, a heroic woman recalls her life, and says,