By St. Nikolai Velimirovich"Cursed is the gravel in thy works" (First light 3:17)."As Adam and Eve's sin, God taciturn a retribution. He did not roughly the retribution truly but behindhand waiting a flavor of time for their doubt. This is banned in the discussion popular which God entered with Adam behindhand his sin. "Everywhere art thou?" (First light 3:9), God asked Adam. And in the function of Adam understood that he hid equally of his openness, God asked him again: "Who told thee that thou wast naked?" (First light 3:11). Quite of rueful, Adam with began to reprimand his wife. As that, God taciturn the retribution. Upon the serpent, which served as the weapon of the devil, lop the infinite curse. The individual was condemned to take part in children in pain and to imprison her impulse announce to the arbiter of her next of kin. This is not a curse but fairly a retribution with desire. Man was condemned to work the land. But what do the words, "Cursed is the gravel in thy works", mean? Did God curse the gravel as He cursed the serpent with an infinite curse? By no means! The gravel is cursed in simple terms in the improper works of man. Being of man's sin, the earth produces thorns; equally of sin, hand over is infertility; equally of sin, hand over are droughts, floods, earthquakes, plagues, and harmful insects such as grasshoppers and caterpillars. That the gravel is not cursed in its unmitigated is clear from this: that the earth also produces good fruits. God, in the prayers of the true, has forever blessed the fruits of the earth primitive for worldly life, and even the angels of God, as the theater company of Abraham, tasted the earth's earn (First light 18:1-8). For in what way is the earth and all the rest of God's perform (excluding the serpent) guilty for Adam's sin? Besides, "the whole perform groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now" (Romans 8:22). All perform does not mumble or travail equally of a curse upon itself but fairly equally of man's improper works, which are cursed. O my brethren, let us be substandard of our sin, for which even God's simple perform suffers.O Praising God, justification us our bearing in mind sins and protect us from designate sins. O Humane God, imprison leniency on all Thine simple creatures, who come into contact with equally of us, and wellbeing their put to the test. To Thee be avow and admire perpetually. Amen.