Satan convinces Eve to eat the forbidden fruit. The fugue suggests his twisting arguments.

The archangel Raphael comes to warn Adam against Lucifer, now Satan. He tells Adam about Lucifer’s fall from heaven.

Satan boasts of his success to the host of demons in Hell, but they are all turned into serpents as divine retribution.

Satan infiltrates the dreams of a sleeping Eve. Battle ensues when he is discovered by the archangel Michael.