Now Lehi explains the problem, and once again he underlines the essentiality of opposition. There were two problems in the Garden, and he mentions the first in passing, that Adam and Eve would have had no children. While this is a crucial theological point, it is not the point Lehi wants to emphasize, and so he quickly moves to once again tie the discourse back onto itself and reiterate that the Edenic state was one without opposition, and therefore was not a condition that had the power to exalt for there was no opposition to act upon. Remember the use of the word joy in this verse, as it ties to verse 25 below.