Abstract
Cheryl H. Fresch's informative survey of how various authorities interpreted Eve's modification of the divine prohibition against eating the forbidden fruit (MQ, October, 1978) reveals both that there were several explanations, from which Milton was at liberty to choose one that best suited his purposes, and that what began as a problem–reconciling an apparent conflict in the by‐definition infallible text of Genesis–ended as an opportunity–for moral instruction and literary invention. Another instance of this transformation from exegesis to fabulation, at the hands of a major writer, is to be found in John Donne's sermon “Preached to the Lords upon Easter‐day, at the Communion, The King being then dangerously sick at New‐Market,” on the text “What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death?“
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