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Verse Genesis 2:17. _OF THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE - THOU SHALT NOT
EAT_] This is the _first positive precept_ God gave to man; and it was
given as a test of obedience, and a proof of his being in a
_...
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- XII. The Command
15. נוּח _nûach_ “rest, dwell.” עבד _‛__ābad_
“work, till, serve.” שׁמר _shāmar_ “keep, guard.”
We have here the education of man summed up in a single sentence. Let
us endeavo...
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II. THE GENERATIONS OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH
Man in Innocency before the Fall
Genesis 2:4-45
_ 1. The earth his abode (Genesis 2:4)_
2. The creation of man (Genesis 2:7)
3. The garden of Eden...
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J'S STORY OF CREATION AND PARADISE LOST. This story does not belong to
P, for it is free from its characteristics in style, vocabulary, and
point of view. It is distinguished from P's creation story b...
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The narrative begins with the words In the day, but the construction
is uncertain. Perhaps Genesis 2:5 f. is a parenthesis, so that man was
formed at the period when earth and heaven (J's phrase for P...
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J'S STORY OF CREATION AND PARADISE LOST. This story does not belong to
P, for it is free from its characteristics in style, vocabulary, and
point of view. It is distinguished from P's creation story b...
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TREE. Note the three trees: "Knowledge" (Genesis 2:9), man's Ruin;
"the Cross" (Acts 10:39; Acts 5:30; 1 Peter 2:24), man's Redemption;
"the Tree of Life" ...
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_of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil_ See above, on Genesis
2:9. Here only one tree is mentioned, as in Genesis 3:3; and it seems
not unlikely that the mention of "the tree of life" did not...
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DISCOURSE: 3
COVENANT MADE WITH ADAM
Genesis 2:16. _And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every
tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil t...
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OF EVERY TREE, &C.— Rich in his bounty, and free in his donations,
the liberal Creator of all things here gives a large and extensive
grant to his creature, allowing the free use of all those various...
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PART NINE: THE BEGINNING OF SOCIETY
(Genesis 2:8-25)
And Jehovah God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there he put
the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made Jehovah God to
grow ev...
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_BUT OF THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL, THOU SHALT NOT EAT
OF IT: FOR IN THE DAY THAT THOU EATEST THEREOF THOU SHALT SURELY DIE._
The tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt no...
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KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL] i.e. moral consciousness issuing in moral
judgment; the power to distinguish between good and evil, not in act
only but in consequence as well. This faculty is necessary, i...
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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...
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We can be sure that God made this tree for a good purpose. Perhaps he
intended that men and women should eat its fruit later, at the right
time. But it certainly made Adam and Eve distinguish between...
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GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE
GENESIS
_ALUN OWEN_
CHAPTER 2
GOD RESTS
V1 So the sky and the earth were complete. Everything that was in
them was complete. V2 On the seventh day, God had finished his work...
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THE LORD GOD COMMANDED. — Probation is the law of man’s moral
condition now, and it began in Paradise, only the conditions there
were different. (See _Excursus_ at end of this book.)
IN THE DAY.... —...
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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...
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וּ מֵ עֵ֗ץ הַ דַּ֨עַת֙ טֹ֣וב וָ...
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THE CREATION
Genesis 1:1; Genesis 2:1
IF anyone is in search of accurate information regarding the age of
this earth, or its relation to the sun, moon, and stars, or regarding
the order in which plan...
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MAN IN EDEN, INNOCENCE
Genesis 2:1
The first paragraph belongs to the previous chapter, as is clear from
the use of the same term for God- _Elohim._ God's Rest was not from
weariness, or exhaustion,...
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This chapter gives us a fuller account of man. Three distinct
movements are chronicled in the brief but comprehensive account.
First, "Jehovah God formed man of the dust." The Hebrew word "formed"
su...
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MAN IS DIFFERENT
Until man's creation, everything was spoken into existence. Man was
different (Genesis 1:26; Genesis 2:7). God took of the dust of the
earth and made man in his own image. Man's liken...
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But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat
of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely (m)
die.
(m) By death he means the separation of man from God, w...
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The death of the soul, and become obnoxious to that of the body; thou
shalt become a mortal and lose all the privileges of innocence. Though
Adam lived 930 years after this, he was dying daily; he car...
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But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat
of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
The tree of life, (Genesis 2:9) perhaps an emblem, or token...
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_THE ONE FORBIDDEN THING_
‘But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not
eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely
die.’
Genesis 2:17
These words comp...
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In chapter 2 we have man's relationship with God, and his own portion
as such. Hence the LORD [1] God is introduced: not merely God as a
creator, but God in relationship with those He has created. Hen...
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BUT OF THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL,.... Of the name of this
tree, and the reasons of it,
Genesis 2:9
THOU SHALT NOT EAT OF IT; not that this tree had any efficacy in it to
increase knowle...
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But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat
of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Ver. 17. _But of the tree, &c._] An exploratory prohibition...
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Gen. 2:17. "In the day that thou eatest thereof, dying thou shalt
die." This expression denotes not only the certainty of death, but the
extremity of it. Thou shalt die, in the superlative and to the...
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_Of the tree of knowledge thou shalt not eat_ Hitherto God has been
manifested as man's powerful Creator and bountiful Benefactor: now he
appears as his _Ruler_ and _Lawgiver_, and, as such, enters in...
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1 The first Sabbath.
4 The maner of the creation.
8 The planting of the garden of Eden,
10 and the riuer thereof.
17 The tree of knowledge onely forbidden. 19-20 The naming of the
creatures.
21 T...
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Adam placed into the Garden...
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but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat
of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
This was a very general permission or command: of every tree...
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SECOND SECTION
_Man—Paradise—the Paradisaical Pair and the Paradisaical
Institutions,—Theocratic—Jehovistic._
GENESIS 2:4-25.
A. The Earth waiting for Man.
4These are the generations [genealogies]...
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THE SEVENTH DAY
The first three verses here are directly connected with chapter 1.
"Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were
finished." The work of the first creation occupied s...
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SURELY DIE:
_ Heb._ dying thou shalt die...
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16,17 Let us never set up our own will against the holy will of God.
There was not only liberty allowed to man, in taking the fruits of
paradise, but everlasting life made sure to him upon his obedie...
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The chapter introduces to our notice two prominent subjects, namely,
"the seventh day" and "the river." The first of these demands special
attention.
There are few subjects on which so much misunderst...
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Genesis 2:17 tree H6086 knowledge H1847 good H2896 evil H7451 eat H398
(H8799) day H3117 eat H398 ...
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MAN'S ESTABLISHMENT AND FALL (GENESIS 2:4 TO GENESIS 3:24) TABLET II.
Genesis 2 and Genesis 3 form a unit distinguished by the fact that God
is called Yahweh Elohim (Lor
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THE TREE-COVERED PLAIN IN EDEN (GENESIS 2:4).
‘In the day that the Lord God made earth and heavens, when no plant
(siach) of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb (‘eseb) of
the field had yet sp...
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‘And the Lord God commanded the man saying, “You may freely eat of
every tree in the Plain, but concerning the tree of knowing good and
evil you shall not eat of it, for in the day that you eat of it...
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Genesis 2:17
These words comprehend the whole of humanity in their application;
every man and woman that ever has existed or shall exist on the face
of the earth. This was not a positive law, but a n...
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Genesis 2:1. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the
host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had
made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work whi...
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CONTENTS: God's Sabbath rest. The creative act of Genesis 1:27
explained. The Edenic covenant.
CHARACTERS: God, Adam, Eve.
CONCLUSION: Man is a threefold being, body, soul and spirit. The real
man i...
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Genesis 2:1. By _host_ is meant, not the angels, as some have thought,
but the starry heavens. Psalms 33:6.
Genesis 2:2. _On the seventh day God ended his work._ The Samaritan
Pentateuch reads, the si...
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_In the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die._
THE FALL OF MAN
These words were fulfilled at the time they were spoken; they have
been fulfilled ceaselessly thereafter. We live in a un...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 2:17 The fruit of THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE
OF GOOD AND EVIL has been variously understood as giving (1) sexual
awareness, (2) moral discrimination, (3) moral responsibility, a...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 2:4 Earth’s First People. Centered
initially on the garden of Eden, the episodes in this part of Genesis
1:1 recount how God’s ordered creation is thrown
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 2:14. East of Assyria] So Ges. and Dav. Lit., “before A.”
wh. to a writer in Pal. is = west (Fürst).
GENESIS 2:17. SURELY DIE] Heb. “die, die shalt thou;” as in
Genesis 2:16...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 2:8
In accordance with a well-known characteristic of Hebrew composition,
the writer, having carried his subject forward to a convenient place
of rest, now reverts to a point of ti...
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Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of
them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and
he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had mad...
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of the tree. Genesis 2:9 Genesis 3:1 Genesis 3:11 Genesis 3:17 Genesis
3:19 thou
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Why didn’t Adam die the day he ate the forbidden fruit, as God said
he would?
PROBLEM: God said to Adam, “in the day that you eat of it you shall
surely die” (Genesis 2:17). But Adam lived to be 930...