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Verse Genesis 3:5. _YOUR EYES SHALL BE OPENED_] Your understanding
shall be greatly enlightened and improved; _and ye shall be as gods_,
כאלהים kelohim, like God, so the word should be translated; fo...
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- Section III - The Fall
- The Fall
1. נחשׁ _nachash_ “serpent; related: hiss,” Gesenius;
“sting,” Mey. ערוּם _'ārûm_ “subtle, crafty, using
craft for defence.”
7. תפר _tāpar_ “sew, stitch, tack...
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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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FOR GOD DOTH KNOW... YOUR EYES SHALL BE OPENED.
The father of lies declares that, instead of dying as. consequence of
eating of the forbidden tree, and thus disobeying God, those who eat
are made as...
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_for God doth know_, &c. Having denied the fact of the penalty, the
serpent proceeds to suggest that there is an unjust motive for the
threat. It is not, he says, for the good of the man and the woman...
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SHALL BE AS GODS, KNOWING GOOD AND EVIL— כאלהים _keelohim,
like God._ See note on Genesis 3:22....
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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...
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_FOR GOD DOTH KNOW THAT IN THE DAY YE EAT THEREOF, THEN YOUR EYES
SHALL BE OPENED, AND YE SHALL BE AS GODS, KNOWING GOOD AND EVIL._
No JFB commentary on this verse....
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3:5 but (a-1) Or 'for.' God, (b-22) Or 'as gods.'...
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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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‘You will distinguish things clearly.’ This does not mean that
they would see more clearly. It means that they would know the
difference between good things and evil things.
V6 Then the woman saw tha...
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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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YE SHALL BE AS GODS. — Rather, _as God,_ as Elohim himself, in the
particular quality of knowing good and evil. It was a high bait which
the tempter offered; and Eve, who at first had answered rightly...
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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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כִּ֚י יֹדֵ֣עַ אֱלֹהִ֔ים כִּ֗י בְּ
יֹום֙ אֲכָל
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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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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...
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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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For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall
be opened, and ye shall be as gods, (e) knowing good and evil.
(e) As though he said, God forbids you to eat of the fruit, only...
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God. The old serpent's aim is, to make us think God envies our
happiness. (Haydock) --- Or he would have Eve to suppose, she had not
rightly understood her maker, who would surely never deprive her of...
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For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall
be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Reader! remark the progress of the enemy. He had before been working
u...
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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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5._For God doth know. _There are those who think that God is here
craftily praised by Satan, as if He never would prohibit men from the
use of wholesome fruit. But they manifestly contradict themselve...
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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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FOR GOD DOTH KNOW,.... Or "but k God doth know", who knows all things,
and has foreknowledge of all future events; he foreknows what will be
the consequence of this event, eating the fruit of this tre...
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For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall
be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Ver. 5. _For God doth know, &c._] It should take care of itself
becau...
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The tempter, finding that the woman began to doubt whether eating this
fruit was a crime, and if it were, whether punishment would follow,
now became more bold in his attack, and, giving God the lie d...
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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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for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall
be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. Not
satisfied with having awakened doubt in the woman's heart, the Tem...
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The Temptation and Fall...
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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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1-5 Satan assaulted our first parents, to draw them to sin, and the
temptation proved fatal to them. The tempter was the devil, in the
shape and likeness of a serpent. Satan's plan was to draw our fi...
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If you would have the whole truth of the matter, and God's design in
that prohibition, it is only this, He knoweth that you shall be so far
from dying, that ye shall certainly be entered into a new an...
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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 3:5 God H430 knows H3045 (H8802) day H3117 eat H398 (H8800)
eyes H5869 opened H6491 ...
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‘And the snake said to the woman, “You shall not surely die, for
God knows that in the day you eat of it then your eyes will be opened,
and you will be like God knowing good and evil”.'
The snake know...
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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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_Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field_
THE FIRST GREAT TEMPTATION
I. THAT THE HUMAN SOUL IS FREQUENTLY TEMPTED BY A DIRE FOE OF UNUSUAL
SUBTLETY.
1. The tempter of human soul...
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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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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 3:4 The serpent directly contradicts what
God has said. He presents the fruit of the tree as something worth
having. By eating it, he says, Adam and Eve will be LIKE GOD, KNOW...
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_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Genesis 3:1_
THE FIRST GREAT TEMPTATION
It is well for the military general to study the plan and the history
of great battles that have been fought in the past, i...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 3:1
How long the paradisiacal state of innocence and felicity continued
the historian does not declare, probably as not falling within the
scope of his immediate design. Psalms 49:...
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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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God. Exodus 20:7 1 Kings 22:6 Jeremiah 14:13 Jeremiah 14:14 Jeremia
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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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Is man made like God or does he become like God?
PROBLEM: Genesis 1:27 says “God created man in His own image.” But
in Genesis 3:22 God said, “the man has become like one of Us, to
know good and evil....