Genesis. Adam in Paradiso.
Brief Comments on the Latin:
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2:7. Note the use of in plus the accusative: in animam viventem, "into a living being."
2:9. Note the parallel construction: produxit Dominus Deus lignum and [formavit] lignum vitae and [formavit] lignum scientiae...
2:18. The infinitive esse is the subject of est, "to be a person alone is not a good (thing)." Similis takes the genitive. The use of sui here is not classical usage, since it does not refer back to the subject of the main verb (nos).
2:19. The phrase formatis animantibus et volatilibus is an ablative absolute. Like most Hebrew names, Adam does not decline; here it is in the accusative, ad Adam.
2:20. The first use of the Hebrew name Adam here is nominative (subject of appellavit), and the second Adam is dative, "no helper was found for Adam."
2:23. The unusual word virago here is used for "woman" in order to create the play on words which existed in the original Hebrew: vir - virago (the Hebrew words are ish - ishah).
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