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Adam's one task in the Garden had been to invent language, to give each creature and thing its name. [...] His words had not been merely appended to the things he saw, they had revealed their essences, had literally brought them to life. [...] After the fall, this was no longer true. Names became detached from things; words devolved into a collection of arbitrary signs; language had become severed from God.