And further also we intimate to you, that these forty Days are the forty Days of Adam's being in Paradise before his Sleep, before the Woman was made out of him, where he stood in the paradisical Temptation, where he was still pure and heavenly. And so this Christ must also stand forty Days in the paradisical Source [or Condition,] in the Temptation, [to try] whether the Body would continue paradisical before he was glorified; and therefore he did eat and drink with his Disciples in a paradisical Manner (as Adam should have done) into the Mouth, and not into the Body; for the Consuming consisted in the Virtue [or Power.]

And after Adam had com- pleted forty days in the land where he had been created, we brought him into the Garden of Eden to till and keep it, but his w...

And so during the forty days after his resurrection he did not always walk visibly among the disciples, but invisibly, according to his heavenly and a...