JONARNO LAWSON
The following is the complete piece from the work originally published on page 61 of Issue 27.2.
THE TAILORS AND THE BUTCHER
by
JonArno Lawson
In all the hullabaloo over the expulsion from the Garden of Eden, two events are overlooked. First, Adam and Eve sewed themselves loincloths out of leaves. Much is made of the fig leaves but little is made of the fact that they invented sewing. In this pre-metallurgic time, before they had access to bones, they must have used wood splinters, or perhaps they made little holes by hand and pushed tree fibres through. They did this before they were expelled, before they were told they would have to labour by the sweat of their brows to live. The first labour of humanity was to sew undergarments in Paradise.
The other line I want to draw your attention to, related to this one, is that God made them garments of leather. God did this. Note that God did not say, "Let there be leather pants." He did not create them. He made them. He clothed them himself. Where did the skins come from? Did God make anything else in the Bible, or only the leather pants and jackets?
I wonder which beast got butchered for its skin? It became instantly extinct. Before Abel the shepherd and Cain the farmer, came Adam and Eve the tailors, and God the butcher.