But there is another quite different reference to Paradise in 13:4. There it refers to a time after the resurrection of the dead, when all the righteous will dwell with God forever. Also, the Latin version of this text, the Life of Adam and Eve, which I mentioned in the previous chapter, uses the term in yet a third way. There Adam ascends before his death “into the Paradise of righteousness,” but the reference is clearly to the highest heaven, the throne of God (25:3). So here we have three very different meanings given to the term Paradise within the same textual tradition.
