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I am sure there are other places as well, but in Irenaeus' "Against Heresies" 3:22, he states, "But Eve was disobedient; for she did not obey when as yet she was a virgin . And even as she, having indeed a husband, Adam, but being nevertheless as yet a virgin (for in Paradise they were both naked, and were not ashamed, Genesis 2:25 inasmuch as they, having been created a short time previously, had no understanding of the procreation of children: for it was necessary that they should first come to adult age, and then multiply from that time onward), having become disobedient, was made the cause of death, both to herself and to the entire human race".

This was all said in the context of the virginity of Mary.

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Thanks; what I was looking for was something I saw which walked through the day hour-by-hour as the Sanhedrin timeline did.

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Update: Honorius, a student of Anselm of Canterbury, writes in his "Lucidarium":

The student: How long were they in the garden of Eden?

The teacher: Seven hours.

Student: why no longer?

Teacher: Because the woman betrayed them shortly after she was formed.

- In the third hour after his creation, Adam gave names to the beasts,

- in the fifth hour the newly-formed woman sunk her teeth into the forbidden fruit and offered it to her husband and he ate it out of love for his wife, resulting in their expulsion from the Garden of Eden by God at the end of the eighth hour.

[Eleazar Touitou, "Rashi's Commentary on Genesis 1–6," HUCA 61 (1990): 179]

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