Show MERELY A POPULAR BELIEF scholars question whether the apple was the forbidden fruit in the I 1 garden of eden why and how it has happened that 1 abo apple has been spoken of as the fruit that was forbidden in the oar den of eden Is one of the great ales of scholars the fact la that in genesis 3 where the incident of the eating 0 this fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil Is mentioned no name whatever Is given to the fruit all that Is said la and when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was pleasant to the eyes and a tree to be desired to make one wise took of the fruit thereof and did eat and gave also unto her husband with her and he did eat verse 6 n fact scholars doubt very ly whether it was the apple at all they suggest that all evidence points 0 o it having been the quince of which was held r the ft teem by the orientals Orient als another point in faor of the quince Is that it ie the ault which sacred to venue the goddess of live and in a great many of the ancient writings the quince is very frequently mentioned in this man ner in babelonia babylonia Baby lonia lectar took the place of venus in the roman mythol agy ogy and it should be remembered that the story of the creation ted with the babylonians all evi dence seems to point away from the apple having been the forbidden fruit and tor tarda the quince as bar ing been that fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil |