The first human pair are in sin; they have risen against God their Maker in rebellion. Instantly “their eyes are opened.” They realize how strangely different are the sensations that come _after_ sin from those that are before. The false hopes, the fascinations, the bewildering, bewitching charms of temptation’s hour give place to the awful sense of folly and of wrong――a sense of passing suddenly into a world of solemn and dread realities pertaining to God, duty, and doom. “They knew that they were naked”; an awful sense of being unfit to be seen; a consciousness of being ugly, loathsome, as if the inner guilt of their souls stood out visibly over their whole bodies――this seems to have been their first sensation, and they set themselves to sewing fig-leaf coverings. As evening drew on they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden. That voice which up to this day had been their sweetest music now fills their very souls with shame and terror.――――It is remarkable that Adam’s words and his acts also make so much account of his nakedness, apparently of person. Was it that his convictions of sin and guilt were yet superficial, so that his sense of shame for his sin turned his thought first to his personal nakedness? Had he yet to learn that “God looketh on the heart”? If so the Lord’s searching question must have met his case――“Who told thee that thou wast naked”? How camest thou by this sense of shame, this dread of the eye of thy divine Father? “Hast thou eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat”?――――Adam could not do otherwise than confess his sin, yet with an apology which almost or quite reflected upon God; “The woman whom _thou gavest_ to be with me, she gave me, and I did eat.” The woman too sought to screen herself somewhat under the apology of a subtle temptation. “The serpent beguiled me and I did eat.”