apple in Eden

[Amy Z]

Rita wrote on the main list:

>Btw, I have been told that the fruit in Eden was an apple because 'apple'
>and 'evil' are both 'malum' in Latin, so I've given the Malfoys the
>Kallisti apple as the crest for their arms.

Cool crest, but whoever told you that has a very shaky grasp of the Bible.  
Genesis was written in Hebrew, not Latin, and besides, it says nothing about 
an apple; the fruit Eve and Adam eat is referred to simply as "fruit," p'ri.

Amy

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