And so the first tale is over: a story of success, transgression, repentance, and repentance accepted; and of God’s choice of our first father and his wife, after they had undergone the two tests, to set in train a long series of events, in which Adam is ‘God’s viceroy on earth’ (for God ‘….said to angles: I will appoint a viceroy on earth’), viceroy in spite of the transgression that had been committed and those that would follow the trials of mankind throughout its long history and its deviations from God’s law, which is based on truth, justice and mercy.