Show MERELY A POPULAR BELIEF scholars question Que atlon whether the apple was the forbidden fruit in the tha garden of eden why and how it has happened that tho the apple has been spoken of as an the fruit that was forbidden tn in the garden of eden la Is one of the great puzzles of biblical scholars echo lars the fact ta la that in genesis 31 3 where the tha incident of the eating of this fruat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil ta Is menti mentioned orfed no name whatever la Is given to the fruit all that la Is said la Is and when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was waa pleasant to the eyes and a tree to be desired to make one wise she eho took of the fruit thereof and did eat and gave also unto her husband wl with 1 l her and he did eat verse versa 6 in fact scholars doubt very ly whether it was waa the apple at nil all they suggest that till all evidence points to it having been the quince fragrance tra granco of which was waa held in 14 the highest ag teem by the orientals Orient als another pat point nt in favor of the quince Is that it la the fruit which was sacred to venus the goddess of live and in a great many of the ancient writings the quince la Is very frequently mentioned in this thin manner in babelonia Babylon Baby lonia la ishtar took the place of at venus in tile the roman mythology and it should be remembered that the story atory of the creation originated with the babylonians all evidence seems to point way away from tile the apple having been the forbidden fruit and towards the quince am aa bavins baving been that fruit of the trw tree of 0 knowledge of good P n nd d evil |