She then plucked for herself of the fruit and ate, and imagined she felt the quickening power of a new and elevated existence as the result of the exhilarating influence of the forbidden fruit. She was in a strange and unnatural excitement as she sought her husband, with her hands filled with the forbidden fruit. She related to him the wise discourse of the serpent, and wished to conduct him at once to the tree of knowledge. She told him she had eaten of the fruit, and instead of her feeling any sense of death, she realized a pleasing, exhilarating influence. As soon as Eve had disobeyed, she became a powerful medium through which to occasion the fall of her husband. {1SP 38.1}

Derpå plukkede hun selv af frugten og spiste, og mente at hun følte en ny og højere tilværelses livgivende kraft som en følge af den forbudne frugt oplivende indflydelse. Hun var i en underlig og unaturlig, ophidset, tilstand da hun søgte sin mand, med hænder fulde af den forbudne frugt. Hun fremsatte Slangens vise tale for ham og ønskede på engang at lede ham til træet. Hun fortalte ham at hun havde spist af frugten, og i stedet for at mærke nogen følelse af død følte hun en behagelig, oplivende indflydelse. Så snart som Eva havde vist (39) ulydighed blev hun et mægtigt medium til at forårsage hendes mands fald.