reader question Kaique Rossoni, Colatina, ES
Photograph Bruna Sanches
Probably from an excerpt from the Bible. More precisely, verse 19 of chapter 3 of the book of Genesis, where it is written: “In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, until you return to the ground; because from her you were taken; for you are dust and to dust you will return.” According to the most recurrent interpretation of the passage, it explains how, due to sin and disobedience, the paradise in which Adam and Eve lived ended, and humans would start to work and suffer. In the text, the sweat of the face is equivalent to kneaded bread. Both are symbols of great effort. The devil enters history by kneading the bread of misfortune, that is, he was responsible for the temptation that man could not resist.
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