 Eve’s role was inscribed in Adam’s ontological instability. In Philo’s allegorical interpretation, defined not as a certainty but a conjecture, the serpent is the symbol of pleasure. It cannot be said, however, that pleasure is an absolute evil in Philo’s thought. It is necessary in the created world and it is said in Leg. 2.17 that the new born child makes use of it. The defenders of pleasure are not absolutely wrong when they say that offspring feel an affinity with it. Their error is not in defending pleasure but in transforming its auxiliary role into the alpha and omega of ethics. The moment of humankind’s fall is neither the triumph of evil, nor a victory of individual perversity, but rather the appearance of a contrast between the first man in his initial perfection and a world which, being created on the basis of the intelligible one, could not itself be perfect.