• Dicska@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Also, that’s part of the reason everyone pictures the fruit of Eden as an apple. In the original script it doesn’t even say apple anywhere, just fruit.

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      8 months ago

      If I remember correctly, and my Latin lessons are long ago, apple is malūs while evil is malus and the macron isn’t written in ancient texts. So reading the Latin version makes the evil fruit an apple