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  "title": "The apple is an allusion, not Genesis's wording",
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      "exact": "An apple is eaten, and the hope of God is gone.",
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      "end": 945,
      "prefix": " and human lives are forfeited. ",
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  "body_markdown": "The sequence culminates in Eden, turning the pattern of a small forbidden act with enormous consequences into a biblical pattern. Genesis 2:16–17 grants access to the garden's trees while withholding one, and Genesis 3:6 records the eating that precedes shame, painful labour, mortality, and expulsion. But Genesis calls the object fruit, without naming an apple. Chesterton uses a recognizable retelling rather than quoting Scripture. [King James Version, Genesis 2–3](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10).\n\nThe phrase about God's hope is likewise Chesterton's compression, not a biblical sentence. It conveys the loss of the original happiness, but should not be read as a claim that Genesis leaves humanity absolutely hopeless: the same chapter gives clothing to the couple (3:21) and announces conflict between the serpent and the woman's offspring (3:15). In the paragraph's argument, Eden supplies the culminating example of conditional enjoyment; it does not establish that every fairy prohibition has an identical moral basis.",
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      "title": "The King James Version of the Bible, Project Gutenberg #10",
      "locator": "Genesis 2:16–17; 3:6–24, especially 3:15 and 3:21",
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      "title": "King James Version, Genesis 2–3"
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    "The inspected witness is the modern Project Gutenberg KJV transcription; the KJV translation first appeared in 1611. No claim is made that this was Chesterton's particular Bible edition."
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        "approach": "Interlocutors and historical debates",
        "question": "Does Yeats's actual fairy drama support the claim that his fairyland lacks mysterious conditions?"
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        "approach": "Biblical references",
        "question": "What does the final apple allusion add to the argument, and what does Genesis actually say?"
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