Afternoon air. God's presence has often been indicated by an unusual wind. (3 Kings xix. 12; Act. ii. 2.) The sovereign judge will not suffer the day to pass over, without bringing our first parents to a sense of their fault. They hid themselves, loving darkness now, because their works were evil.
Verse Genesis 3:8. _THE VOICE OF THE LORD_] The _voice_ is properly used here, for as God is an infinite Spirit, and cannot be confined to any _form_, so he can have no _personal_ appearance. It is v...
- XVI. The Judgment 15. שׁוּף _shûp_ “bruise, wound.” τηρεῖν (=τερεῖν?) _tērein_ ἐκτρίβειν _ektribein_ Job 9:17, καταπατεῖν...
CHAPTER 3 The Fall of Man _ 1. The serpent and the woman (Genesis 3:1)_ 2. The fall and the immediate results (Genesis 3:6) 3. Jehovah Elohim questions Adam (Genesis 3:8) 4. His question to the w...
Among the animals formed by Yahweh, in His first attempt to provide man with a companion, was the serpent; at that time either a quadruped or holding itself erect. It was eminent among its fellows for...
VOICE. sound. (Ecclesiastes 7:6. crackling.) Here. footsteps, as in 2 Samuel 5:24; 1 Kings 14:6; 2 Kings 6:32. COOL. Hebrew....
The Fall The serpent here disappears from the story, except for the mention of him in the woman's words of excuse (Genesis 3:13), and in the Divine sentence upon him (Genesis 3:14). He did not tell t...
_the voice_ Better, as R.V. marg., _sound_. The man and woman are represented as hearing the sound of God's footsteps in the garden. _in the cool of the day_ Lit. "in the wind of the day"; that is, a...
AND THEY HEARD, &C.— This may be rendered, _and they heard the sound of the Lord God proceeding or coming into the garden, at the decline, or in the cool of the day,_ whether morning or evening. The w...
PART TWELVE: THE BEGINNING OF MORAL EVIL ON EARTH (Genesis 3:1-8) 1. _The Generations of the Heavens and of the Earth._ We need to recall here briefly the significance of this phrase. The term genera...
_AND THEY HEARD THE VOICE OF THE LORD GOD WALKING IN THE GARDEN IN THE COOL OF THE DAY: AND ADAM AND HIS WIFE HID THEMSELVES FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD GOD AMONGST THE TREES OF THE GARDEN._ AND THE...
PARADISE AND THE FALL In this famous passage we possess a wealth of moral and spiritual teaching regarding God and man. The intention of the writer is evidently to give an answer to the question: How...
A GARDEN] LXX renders by 'Paradeisos' (a Persian word meaning 'a park'), hence the English 'Paradise.' EASTWARD] i.e. of Palestine, such as Babylonia would be. EDEN] The Heb. word _eden_ means 'deligh...
Adam and Eve knew that they had done a wrong thing. Their wrong deed separated them from God. They did not want to meet God. That is why they hid themselves. But they could not hide from God. If we d...
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 3 ADAM AND EVE DO AN EVIL THING V1 The snake was the cleverest wild animal that the *Lord God had made. The snake said to the woman, ‘Is it true...
EXCURSUS C: ON THE DURATION OF THE PARADISIACAL STATE OF INNOCENCE. The _Bereshit Rabba_ argues that Adam and Eve remained in their original state of innocence for six hours only. Others have supposed...
AND THEY HEARD THE VOICE OF THE LORD GOD WALKING IN THE GARDEN. — The matter-of-fact school of commentators understand by this that there was a thunderstorm, and the guilty pair hearing for the first...
וַֽ יִּשְׁמְע֞וּ אֶת ־קֹ֨ול יְהוָ֧ה אֱלֹהִ֛ים...
THE FALL Genesis 3:1 PROFOUND as the teaching of this narrative is, its meaning does not lie on the surface. Literal interpretation will reach a measure of its significance, but plainly there is more...
MAN AND WOMAN, TEMPTATION Genesis 2:18; Genesis 3:1 Human love is God's best gift to man. Without it even Eden would not be Paradise. That Adam was able to name the animals, affixing a title suggeste...
Here begins the second section of the Book of Genesis. As the first has answered questions concerning creation, the second replies to questions asked in the presence of sin and suffering and sorrow. T...
God would have been very pleased if he had never needed a remedy for sin. However, man chose the path of sin. Satan's grand lie caused him to transgress God's will. Jesus called Satan "a murderer from...
And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife (h) hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. (h)...
And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. Observe the immediate effect of sin. Shame, guilt and fear, filled t...
There is one characteristic of divine revelation to which attention may be profitably called as a starting point. We have to do with facts. The Bible alone is a revelation of facts, and, we can add (n...
_CONCEALMENT FROM GOD IMPOSSIBLE_ ‘Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.’ Genesis 3:8 I. THAT WHICH STRIKES US FIRST OF ALL IS, THAT AD...
8._And they heard the voice of the Lord God_. As soon as the voice of God sounds, Adam and Eve perceive that the leaves by which they thought themselves well protected are of no avail. Moses here rela...
In chapter 3 we find what, alas! has always happened, and happened immediately when God has set up anything in the hands of responsible man disobedience and failure. So it was in Adam, so in Noah, so...
AND THEY HEARD THE VOICE OF THE LORD GOD,.... Which they had heard before, and knew, though perhaps now in another tone, and very terrible, which before was mild and gentle, pleasant and delightful: s...
And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. Ver. 8....
_They heard the voice of the Lord God walking_, &c. It is supposed he came in a human shape; in that wherein they had seen him, when he put them into paradise. For he came to convince and humble, not...
1 The serpent deceiueth Eue. 6 Mans shamefull fall. 9 God arraigneth them. 14 The serpent is cursed. 15 The promised Seed. 16 The punishment of Mankind. 21 Their first clothing. 22 Their castin...
And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day; and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden. This is r...
The Investigation of God...
SECOND PART THE GENESIS OF THE WORLD-HISTORY, OF THE TRIAL, OF THE SIN OF MAN, OF THE JUDGMENT, OF DEATH, OF THE SALVATION-TRIUMPH, OF THE CONTRAST BETWEEN A DIVINE AND A WORLDLY TENDENCY IN HUMANITY...
THE FALL OF MAN The serpent is introduced in this chapter as being more cunning than all other beasts. This was evidently so just by the fact of Satan's using the serpent for his mouthpiece. It is not...
COOL: _ Heb._ wind...
6-8 Observe the steps of the transgression: not steps upward, but downward toward the pit. 1. She saw. A great deal of sin comes in at the eye. Let us not look on that which we are in danger of lusti...
THE VOICE OF THE LORD GOD, mentioned GENESIS 3:9, or rather the SOUND, as the word VOICE is often taken in Scripture, as Psalms 93:3 Revelation 10:3,...
This section of our book sets before us the breaking up of the whole scene on which we have been dwelling. It abounds in very weighty principles; and has, very justly, been, in all ages, resorted to a...
Genesis 3:8 heard H8085 (H8799) sound H6963 LORD H3068 God H430 walking H1980 (H8693) garden H1588 cool...
Genesis 3:8 A ‘And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze (ruach - literally “‘in the wind of the day”)'. It may well be that they had communed w...
Genesis 3:8 As the account of Eve's temptation and fall truly represents the course of corruption and sin, so the behaviour of our first parents afterwards answers exactly to the feelings and conduct...
Genesis 3:8 I. That which strikes us first of all is, that Adam represents the average sinner. A man may do worse than Adam. Many men have done and do worse than hide themselves from God after outrag...
Genesis 3 Consider: (1) some of the consequences, and (2) some of the corroborative proofs of the fall. I. Beside and behind the outward consequences, there were inward results far more terrible. A d...
Genesis 3:1. _Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?_ H...
Genesis 3:1. Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And...
CONTENTS: Temptation of Eve and entrance of sin into the race. God's covenant with fallen man and the expulsion from Eden. CHARACTERS: God, Satan, Adam, Eve. CONCLUSION: Doubt lies at the root of all...
Genesis 3:1. _The serpent._ The rabbins and the christian doctors have largely sported their opinions here. St. Cyril contends that Satan assumed the figure of the serpent, and so talked with the woma...
_They heard the voice of the Lord God_ GOD’S VOICE IN NATURE Whether their ears as well as their hearts heard God’s voice does not much matter. It would have mattered if their ears and not their hea...
HOW WE HIDE And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God. Genesis 3:8. There is a little word of three letters in the eighth verse of the third chapter of Genesis, and thou...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 3:1 The sudden arrival of a speaking SERPENT presents a challenge to the human couple. Their choice to disregard God’s instructions is an act of willful rebellion that has terr...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Genesis 3:8_ THE SAD EFFECTS OF YIELDING TO TEMPTATION I. That yielding to temptation is generally followed by a sad consciousness of physical destitution. “And th...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 3:8 AND THEY HEARD THE VOICE OF THE LORD GOD. Either (1) the noise of his footsteps (cf. Le Genesis 26:33; Numbers 16:34;...
Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden (Genesis 3:1)? Now...
And they. Genesis 3:10 Deuteronomy 4:33 Deuteronomy 5:25 cool of the day. Heb. wind. Job 34:21...
THE CROSS IN GENESIS Genesis 2:22; Genesis 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS If Jesus Christ, in the purposes of God, was given to die before the world was formed, or before man was created; and if man, when h...
THE TEMPTATION Genesis 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There are some very vital questions which naturally tome to most minds. These we will seek to answer. 1. DID GOD KNOW THAT MAN WOULD SIN WHEN HE CREATE...
THE FIRST WOMAN Genesis 2:20; Genesis 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS When we enter into the Bible story of creation there is something that makes it all seem so real, so definite, and so certain. Evolution...
How could Adam and Eve go from God’s presence if God is everywhere? PROBLEM: The Bible says that God is everywhere present at the same time, that is, He is omnipresent (Psalms 139:7-10; Jeremiah 23:23...