The iconography of the fresco decoration is somewhat unusual ; while the majority of the frescoes represent the life of St. Peter, 2 scenes, on either side of the threshold of the chapel space, depict the temptation and expulsion of Adam and Eve.

A similar sentiment is expressed by Douglas Adams in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy in reference to the temptation of Adam and Eve by God:

In addition to its clear allusions to Adam and Eve, forbidden fruit, and temptation, there is much in the poem that seems overtly sexual, such as when Lizzie, going to buy fruit from the goblins, considers her dead friend Jeanie, " Who should have been a bride ; / But who for joys brides hope to have / Fell sick and died ", and lines like " She sucked until her lips were sore ", " She sucked their fruit globes fair or red "; " Lizzie uttered not a word ;/ Would not open lip from lip / Lest they should cram a mouthful in ;/ But laughed in heart to feel the drip / Of juice that syruped all her face ,/ And lodged in dimples of her chin ,/ And streaked her neck which quaked like curd.

In the one language or the other, there are in existence the following three fragments: ( I ) The passage which appears as lines 235 – 851 of the Old English verse Genesis in the Caedmon Manuscript ( MS Junius 11 ) ( this fragment is known as Genesis B, distinguishing it from the rest of the poem, Genesis A ), about the revolt of the angels and the temptation and fall of Adam and Eve.

If you had been running things when our first parents were setting up housekeeping, you would not have removed Adam and Eve from the garden-you would have uprooted the Tree of Knowledge and let Adam and his wife live along without temptation.

This attached a level of temptation to the button itself, and is often used in religious or philosophical allegory, a parallel to Adam and Eve's consumption of the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden.

Mill also acknowledges that “ many who are capable of the higher pleasures, occasionally, under the influence of temptation, postpone them to the lower.

Bradley Belt, former executive director of the PBGC ( the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, the federal agency that insures private-sector defined-benefit pension plans in the event of bankrupment ), testified before a congressional hearing in October 2004, “ I am particularly concerned with the temptation, and indeed, growing tendency, to use the pension insurance fund as a means to obtain an interest-free and risk-free loan to enable companies to restructure.

According to Szasz, “ the therapeutic state swallows up everything human on the seemingly rational ground that nothing falls outside the province of health and medicine, just as the theological state had swallowed up everything human on the perfectly rational ground that nothing falls outside the province of God and religion .” Faced with the problem of “ madness ,” Western individualism proved to be ill prepared to defend the rights of the individual: modern man has no more right to be a madman than medieval man had a right to be a heretic because if once people agree that they have identified the one true God, or Good, it brings about that they have to guard members and nonmembers of the group from the temptation to worship false gods or goods.

Susan Snyder interprets the play by Marlowe as an “ inverted Saint ’ s life ”, complete with the “ sinful ” early life ( a student of divinity ), “ conversion ” ( to the Devil ), reception into the Church ( of Lucifer ), “ temptation ” ( by the Good Angel ) which is overcome by help ( of the Bad Angel ), miracles and beatific visions ( of the pagan Helen ), and the final reception into the house of the Lord ( Lucifer ).”

He comes across as a vain person throughout his speech, someone who cannot resist the temptation to praise his own profession: “ a good practitioner knows how to affect the body and how to transform its desires " ( 186d ).

" Kierkegaard puts it this way in another book, " We shall not say with the Preacher ( Ecclesiastes 4: 10 ), ‘ Woe to him who is alone ; if he falls, there is no one else to raise him up ,” for God is indeed still the one who both raises up and casts down, for the one who lives in association with people and the solitary one ; we shall not cry, “ Woe to him ,” but surely an “ Ah, that he might not go astray ,” because he is indeed alone in testing himself to see whether it is God ’ s call he is following or a voice of temptation, whether defiance and anger are not mixed embitteringly in his endeavor.

Although, their work has led to some on the right wing of the movement such as Bernard Cassen of ATTAC to warn of the dangers of the “ nagging temptation of the fifth international ".

It is explained that “ he dismissed them monks with an air of conscious superiority, in which humility ’ s semblance combated with the reality of pride .” Similarly, “ he fixed his eyes on the Virgin … Gracious God, should I then resist the temptation?

Thus in the Gospel of the Hebrews we should not be surprised, that after the temptation of Jesus it says, “ Even so did my Mother, the Holy Spirit, take me by one of my hairs and carry me to the great mountain Tabor.

Rice accepted the blame for putting “ that much temptation ” in his friend ’ s way.

“ When you ’ re a young quarterback, you get greedy, and I have to fight that temptation.

The temptation to use such material, devised by such an illustrious poet, was irresistible to the managers of the Funambules, and the “ review ” was immediately turned into a pantomime ( probably by the administrator of the theater, Cot d ' Ordan ).

A Harder Task Than Making Bricks Without Straw – In this chapter, Washington discusses the importance of having the students erect their own buildings: “ Not a few times, when a new student has been led into the temptation of marring the looks of some building by lead pencil marks or by the cuts of a jack-knife, I have heard an old student remind him: ‘ Don ’ t do that.

According to Szasz, “ the therapeutic state swallows up everything human on the seemingly rational ground that nothing falls outside the province of health and medicine, just as the theological state had swallowed up everything human on the perfectly rational ground that nothing falls outside the province of God and religion .” Faced with the problem of “ madness ,” Western individualism proved to be ill prepared to defend the rights of the individual: modern man has no more right to be a madman than medieval man had a right to be a heretic because if once people agree that they have identified the one true God, or Good, it brings about that they have to guard members and nonmembers of the group from the temptation to worship false gods or goods.

Unfortunately, in addition to viewing left-handedness as a conscious choice, “ Pure backwards of what ’ s right and good ,” Ezekiel also views baseball as a temptation that needs to be resisted, so Luke must practice pitching in secret, by throwing rocks and may apples in the woods.

Hadleyburg enjoys the reputation of being an “ incorruptible ” town known for its responsible, honest people that are trained to avoid temptation.

They believed in humanity's temptation by a devil, and its fall, and that some day a messiah would come to its rescue.

It transpires that Lyra's destiny is to be the second Eve and fall into the temptation of the serpent, represented by Mary Malone.

In an encounter with Asgardian trolls, Moondragon resisted the temptation of letting the trolls and the Dragon of the Moon remove her headband, thus proving herself to Odin, who promptly let the headband fall off.

Thus, due to this emphasis on prayer in the early church, lengthy passages of the New Testament are prayers or canticles ( see also the Book of Odes ), such as the Prayer for forgiveness (), the Lord's Prayer, the Magnificat (), the Benedictus (), Jesus ' prayer to the one true God (), Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (), the Believers ' Prayer (), may this cup be taken from me (), Pray that you will not fall into temptation (), Saint Stephen's Prayer (), Simon Magus ' Prayer (), pray that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men (), Maranatha.

Most of the situations were light-hearted, but plots occasionally delved into darker subjects, including Paulie's struggle to resist the temptation to fall into corruption as a police officer.

Gig Young's character seems to be one that is fairly complex, a cop who is dissatisfied with his lot in life and could fall prey to temptation.

) The sorry fact about this young man, who was barely of age when he broke into major-league baseball, was that he really was a better ball player than he was given credit for being -- never so good as he claimed, and always an irritant to his associates, but a good steady performer when he could fight down the temptation to orate on his skills or cut up in public.

Epictetus said remaining abstinent in the face of temptation was a victory for which a man could be proud.

" Faced with the problem of " madness ," Western individualism proved to be ill-prepared to defend the rights of the individual: modern man has no more right to be a madman than medieval man had a right to be a heretic because if once people agree that they have identified the one true God, or Good, it brings about that they have to guard members and nonmembers of the group from the temptation to worship false gods or goods.

The main theme of the morality play is this: Man begins in innocence, man falls into temptation, Man repents and is saved.

The town of Guellen eagerly surrenders to the temptation of modern-day fiscal freedom promised by billionairess Claire Zachanassian in exchange for the dead body of the Alfred Ill. Now the recently elected mayor-to-be, he was also the man who jilted Zachanassian ( and their unborn child ) several decades ago leaving her destitute.

Yet it is some consolation to reflect that, in our time, a public man would be thought lost to all sense of duty and of shame, who should not spurn from him a temptation which conquered the virtue and the pride of Algernon Sidney.

It begins like this, " Once upon a time there was a man who as a child had heard that beautiful story of how God tempted Abraham and of how Abraham withstood the temptation, kept the faith, and, contrary to expectation, got a son a second time.

But common people, as it was believed, also were seduced by incubi and succubae, especially while they were asleep, and sometimes when they were awake, in the form of a beautiful man or woman that excited their desire to the point of not being able to resist the temptation, although the possibility of resistance always existed as asserted by Christian theologians, but the tendency to sin was stronger than their faith.

He wrote that " the struggle, too, in the Judge's own breast between the feelings of the man, and the duty of the magistrate is a severe one, presenting strong temptation to put aside such questions, if it be possible.

The Mexican Catholic interpretation of the piñata rested on the struggle of man against temptation.

Glaucon asks whether any man can be so virtuous that he could resist the temptation of being able to perform any act without being known or discovered.

Philip is a compassionate man who believes that virtue and faith are the best weapons against evil, but he also struggles with sexual temptation and lapses in faith.

Unfortunately, John suffered from a fatal character flaw: " he could not resist the temptation to kick a man when he was down.

It's such a temptation for a man.

The man, it is implied, will give in to temptation and kiss the woman.