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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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_Who told thee_, &c.?] To this question no answer is expected. The
knowledge could only come in one way. The sense of shame implies
contact with sin.
_Hast thou eaten_, &c.?] An opportunity is given...
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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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DISCOURSE: 6
EXCUSES MADE BY OUR FIRST PARENTS, AFTER THEIR FALL
Genesis 3:11. Hast thou eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee
that thou shouldest not eat? And the man said, The woman whom thou
g...
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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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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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‘Have you eaten the fruit?’ God knew that they had eaten it. He
knows everything that we do. But he wanted Adam and Eve to tell him
what they had done. That is why he asked these questions....
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WHO TOLD THEE THAT THOU WAST NAKED? — Adam had given as his excuse
that which was really the consequence of his sin; but by this question
God awakens his conscience, and makes him feel that what he ha...
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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 מִ֚י הִגִּ֣יד לְךָ֔ כִּ֥י
עֵירֹ֖ם
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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 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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11._Who told thee that thou wast naked ? _An indirect reprimand to
reprove the sottishness of Adam in not perceiving his fault in his
punishment, as if it had been said, not simply that Adam was afrai...
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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,.... The Lord God, or the Word of the Lord;
WHO TOLD THEE THAT THOU [WAST] NAKED? or showed it to thee; by what
means hast thou got knowledge of it? what hast thou done that thou
perceive...
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And he said, Who told thee that thou [wast] naked? Hast thou eaten of
the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
Ver. 11. _Who told thee._] His own conscience, awakened and cited...
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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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And He said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of
the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? Adam
would have remained in the state of blissful innocence if he had...
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The Investigation of God...
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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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THAT THOU WAST NAKED; or, that thy nakedness, which lately was thy
glory, was now become matter of shame. WHEREOF I COMMANDED THEE;
concerning which I gave thee so severe a charge upon pain of death....
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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 3:11 said H559 (H8799) Who H4310 told H5046 (H8689) naked
H5903 H398 (H8804) tree...
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‘And he (God) said, “Who has made you aware that you were naked?
Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you that you should
not eat?” '
The man, of course, had always known that he was physic...
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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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Genesis 4:10 Psalms 50:21 Romans 3:20...
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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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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 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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Who told thee that thou wast naked? — That is, how camest thou to be
sensible of thy nakedness as thy shame? Hast thou eaten of the tree?
— Tho' God knows all our sins, yet he will know them from us,...