The Apple

Narborg

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Jadis temps Digory with an apple which gives eternal life. In the garden of Eden, there were two apple, one which gave the knowledge of good and evil and one which gave eternal life. So why didn't the which temp Digory with an apple of good and evil like Adam. The reason is that as part of Adan race Digory has, in a since already fallen to this apple, so he dose not need to eat it. So Jadis temps Digory with the only apple left; that of eternal life.

In Revelation, this apple is available to all of Jesus followers in the new city. In the Last Battle there is also fruit. A coincidence? IO think not.
 
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Good point, though I think it's a stretch to draw an exact equivalence between the Fruit of the Tree of Eternal Life with the Tree in the Garden in Narnia. They were different worlds, so there's no reason they'd have to be the same thing.

I think you've spotted something important in the consideration of the fruit at the beginning and the fruit at the end. The Fruit at the beginning of Narnia is only for one purpose, and to take it out of turn is disobedience. The Fruit at the end is the Fruit of obedience - those who could partake of it were those who had been obedient in perseverance to the end. For them, no good thing was forbidden, for they had conquered.
 
Digory had two temptations in MN. The first one was in Charn and he could not resist it. It was the bell that awoke Jadis. Note the direct opposition between Polly and Digory after they read the bell's poem. Polly was trying to argue for good while Digory was arguing for temptation.

Temptation won out, literally, when Digory fought with Polly. Evil was awakened. So the knowledge of evil resulted from this bell toll. Digory quickly regretted it and understood good.

That is why it had to be Digory to fix things. He was the one who gave into temptation the first time. Now he had to resist temptation a second time, this time, for eternal life, or rather, the life of his mother.

MrBob
 
MrBob said:
Digory had two temptations in MN. The first one was in Charn and he could not resist it. It was the bell that awoke Jadis. Note the direct opposition between Polly and Digory after they read the bell's poem. Polly was trying to argue for good while Digory was arguing for temptation.

Temptation won out, literally, when Digory fought with Polly. Evil was awakened. So the knowledge of evil resulted from this bell toll. Digory quickly regretted it and understood good.

That is why it had to be Digory to fix things. He was the one who gave into temptation the first time. Now he had to resist temptation a second time, this time, for eternal life, or rather, the life of his mother.

MrBob
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True. It was for this mistake which Digary was in the garden for in the 1st place. But this wasnt the only temtation which Digory would have had to over came in his life. For all of us, we fail to overcame temtation evryday. In our world, we have the help of the Holy Spirt to over came it./ Is the holy Spirt represented here?
 
I think that in the story here Aslan would have known what Dogory could handle and that he wasn't alone at all with Polly and Fledge helping him. Sometimes God works through others as well to help us along...but I don't know that one can really address the idea of the Holy Spirit being represented in the story in a physical manifestation...at least not apart from Aslan.
 
Sometimes I wonder if the breath of Aslan might represent the Holy Spirit a little -- doesn't he breathe on Lucy to make her brave and tell her, "Now you are a lioness"? And then of course in SC, his breath saves Pole and Scrubb and carries them to Narnia ...
 
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