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Verse Genesis 3:10. _I WAS AFRAID, BECAUSE I WAS NAKED_] See the
immediate consequences of sin. 1. SHAME, because of the ingratitude
marked in the rebellion, and because that in aiming to be like God...
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15. שׁוּף _shûp_ “bruise, wound.” τηρεῖν
(=τερεῖν?) _tērein_ ἐκτρίβειν _ektribein_ Job
9:17, καταπατεῖν...
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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...
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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...
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The Enquiry
The certainty of tone with which the following questions are put
indicates either perfect knowledge or accurate perception, and reduces
the guilty man to a speedy confession. The question...
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_heard … afraid … hid_ The man has not courage to tell the whole
truth. Fear suppresses that part of the truth which love should have
avowed. To hide from God's presence is the instinct of guilt; it i...
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BECAUSE I WAS NAKED— That is, not only naked in body, but, what much
more occasions my fear, naked in mind through sin; guilty, and stript
of my original righteousness, and therefore ashamed to stand...
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PART THIRTEEN:
THE BEGINNING OF PHYSICAL EVIL ON EARTH
(Genesis 3:9-24)
_Recapitulation_
1. Aldo J. Tos writes interestingly as follows (ABOT, 61): The account
of the Fall is an artistic presentatio...
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_AND HE SAID, I HEARD THY VOICE IN THE GARDEN, AND I WAS AFRAID,
BECAUSE I WAS NAKED; AND I HID MYSELF._
It is probable, as Kennicott suggests, that God had called more than
once, or that the sound of...
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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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Adam did not say, ‘I have eaten the fruit of the tree that you
forbade us to eat.’ And he did not say, ‘I am sorry.’ If we do a
wrong thing, we should tell God. We should tell him that we have done
it...
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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...
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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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וַ יֹּ֕אמֶר אֶת ־קֹלְךָ֥ שָׁמַ֖עְתִּי
בַּ †...
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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...
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GOD'S CONDEMNATION OF ADAM AND EVE
Genesis 3:9
God does not wait for Adam to find his own way back, but hastens in
search of him. “Where art thou” is rendered in one version, _Alas
for thee._ Jesus m...
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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...
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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...
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And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid,
because I [was] (i) naked; and I hid myself.
(i) His hypocrisy appears in that he hid the cause of his nakedness,
which was the transgr...
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_Afraid. The just man is first to accuse himself: but Adam seeks for
excuses in his sin: he throws the blame on his wife, and ultimately on
God. (Menochius) --- Thou gavest me. Heretics have since tre...
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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...
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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...
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_COWARDICE AND CANT_
‘I heard Thy voice … and I was afraid.’
Genesis 3:10
I. ‘I HEARD THY VOICE … AND I WAS AFRAID.’ The words are
Adam’s words, spoken after that first sin, which we are told abou...
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10._And he said, I heard thy voice_. Although this seems to be the
confession of a dejected and humbled man, it will nevertheless soon
appear that he was not yet properly subdued, nor led to repentanc...
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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...
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AND HE SAID, I HEARD THY VOICE IN THE GARDEN,.... The voice of thy
Word, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan: this was not the true
cause of his hiding himself; he had heard his voice in the garden...
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And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid,
because I [was] naked; and I hid myself.
Ver. 10. _I heard thy voice._] So he had done before his fall, and
feared not. "Do not my word...
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_I was afraid, because I was naked_ He confesses his nakedness, which
was evident; but makes no mention of his sin. This he wished rather to
hide, feeling, indeed, the shameful effects of it, but not...
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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...
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The Investigation of God...
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And he said, I heard Thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid because
I was naked; and I hid myself. Fear, the consciousness of nakedness,
shame: they all cried out aloud the guilt of Adam. Though Ev...
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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...
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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...
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9-13 Observe the startling question, Adam, where art thou? Those who
by sin go astray from God, should seriously consider where they are;
they are afar off from all good, in the midst of their enemie...
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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...
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Genesis 3:10 said H559 (H8799) heard H8085 (H8804) voice H6963 garden
H1588 afraid H3372 (H8799) I...
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‘And he said, “I heard the sound of your presence in the garden,
and I was afraid because I was naked, and I hid myself.” '
How quickly the man gives himself away. The futile coverings that they
had m...
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Genesis 3:10
How deep are the lessons involved in the story of the fall, and how
little are they affected by any of the numerous criticisms to which it
has given rise! The lessons to be here learnt ar...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_Where art thou?_
GOD’S QUESTION
I. The speaker is God; the person spoken to is the representative of
us all.
II. The call is--
1. Individual.
2. Universal.
III. God calls in three ways.
1. In...
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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...
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_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...
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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;...
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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...
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and I was. Genesis 2:25 Exodus 3:6 Job 23:15 Psalms 119:120 Isaiah
33:14...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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I heard thy voice in the garden: and I was afraid — Adam was afraid
because he was naked; not only unarmed, and therefore afraid to
contend with God, but unclothed and therefore afraid so much as to
a...