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The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 3:6
The first sin. I. THE TEMPTATION. 1. The fact. That sin is possible even in pure beings without the intervention of solicitation, at least ab extra, must be held to be the doctrine of Scripture (vide James 1:14 and Jud…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 3:6
And (when) the woman saw. "An impure look, infected with the poison of concupiscence" (Calvin); cf. Joshua 7:21. That the tree was good for food. "The fruit of this tree may have been neither poisonous nor beautiful, or…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 3:7
And the eyes of them both were opened. The fatal deed committed, the promised results ensued, but not the anticipated blessings. Traditions of the Fall. I. ORIENTAL. 1. Babylonian. "There is nothing in the Chaldean frag…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 3:8-19
The first judgment scene. I. THE FLIGHT Or THE CRIMINALS. 1. It is the instinct of sinful men to flee from God. "Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God" (Genesis 3:8). So "Jonah rose up to fl…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 3:8-19
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The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 3:8
And they heard the voice of the Lord God. Either Genesis 3:9, Genesis 3:10 And the Lord God called unto Adam. Adam's absence was a clear proof that something was wrong. Hitherto he had always welcomed the Divine approac…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 3:8
The working of the sin-stricken conscience. I. GOD THE JUDGE REVEALING HIMSELF. The voice of the Lord God represents to men the knowledge of themselves, which, like light, would be intolerable to the shamefaced. II. MAN…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 3:9-24
The word of God in the moral chaos. These verses bring before us very distinctly the elements of man's sinful state, and of the redemptive dispensation of God which came out of it by the action of his brooding Spirit of…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 3:9
The searching question. We can picture the dread of this question. Have you considered its love—that it is really the first word of the gospel? Already the Shepherd goes forth to seek the lost sheep. The Bible shows us—…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 3:13
And the Lord said unto the woman—without noticing the excuses, but simply accepting the admission, and passing on, "following up the transgression, even to the root—not the psychological merely, but the historical (Lang…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 3:14
Confession having thus been made by both delinquents, and the arch-contriver of the whole mischief discovered, the Divine Judge proceeds to deliver sentence. And the Lord God said unto the serpent. Which he does not int…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman. Referring— 1. To the fixed and inveterate antipathy between the serpent and the human race (Bush, Lange); to that alone (Knobel). 2. To the antagonism henceforth to be e…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 3:16
Unto the woman he said. Passing judgment on her first who had sinned first, but cursing neither her nor her husband, as "being candidates for restoration" (Tertullian). The sentence pronounced on Eve was twofold. I will…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 3:17
And unto Adam he said. The noun here used for the first time without the article is explained as a proper name (Keil, Lunge, Speaker's 'Commentary'), though perhaps it is rather designed to express the man's representat…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 3:18
Thorns also and thistles. Terms occurring only here and in Hosed Genesis 10:8 = the similar expressions in Isaiah 5:6; Isaiah 7:23 (Kalisch, Keil, Macdonald). Shall it bring forth to thee. I.e. these shall be its sponta…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of thy face (so called, as having there its source and being there visible) shalt thou eat bread. I.e. all food. "To eat bread" is to possess the means of sustaining life (Ecclesiastes 5:16; Amos 7:12). Til…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 3:20-24
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The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 3:20
Arraigned, convicted, judged, the guilty but pardoned pair prepare to leave their garden home—the woman to begin her experience of sorrow, dependence, and subjection; the man to enter upon his life career of hardship an…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 3:20-24
First fruits of the promise. I. FAITH (Genesis 3:20). The special significance of Adam's renaming his wife at this particular juncture in his history is best discerned when the action is regarded as the response of his…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 3:21
Covering. God's chief promises generally accompanied by visible signs or symbolical acts; e.g; bow in the cloud, furnace and lamp (Genesis 15:17), passover, &c. The time here spoken of specially called for such a sign.…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 3:21
Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats (cathnoth, from cathan, to cover; cf. χιτωì ν; Sanscrit, katam; English, cotton) of skin (or, the skin of a man, from ur, to be naked, hence a hide). Neither th…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 3:22
And the Lord God said. Verba insultantis; ironica reprobatio (Calvin). But "irony at the expense of a wretched, tempted soul might well befit Satan, but not the Lord" (Delitzsch), and is altogether inconsistent with the…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 3:24
The dispensation of redemption. Notice— I. THE MERCY WITH JUDGMENT. He did not destroy the garden; he did not root up its trees and flowers. II. He "DROVE OUT THE MAN" into his curse that he might pray for and seek for…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 4:1-16
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