knew. Figure of speech Metonymy (of Subj.) App-6. They knew before, but their knowledge now received. new meaning. Adam becomes "naked" by losing something of Elohim's glorious likeness. Romans 8:3 may refer to this.
fig leaves. The man-made covering contrasted, in the structure, with the God-made clothing (Genesis 3:21).
aprons. Hebrew word occurs only here.
Verse Genesis 3:7. _THE EYES OF THEM BOTH WERE OPENED_] They now had a sufficient discovery of their sin and folly in disobeying the command of God; they could discern between good and evil; and what...
- 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...
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...
_And the eyes_, &c. The serpent's promise is fulfilled; their eyes having been opened, they have forfeited the state of innocence of which nakedness was symbolical, cf. Genesis 2:25. The knowledge to...
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...
DISCOURSE: 5 THE FALL OF MAN Genesis 3:6. _And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fru...
AND THE EYES OF THEM BOTH WERE OPENED, &C.— They found what the serpent had asserted to be true, Genesis 3:5 but in a manner far different from expectation. _Their eyes were opened,_ but not to a view...
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 THE EYES OF THEM BOTH WERE OPENED, AND THEY KNEW THAT THEY WERE NAKED; AND THEY SEWED FIG LEAVES TOGETHER, AND MADE THEMSELVES APRONS._ The eyes of them both were opened. LeClerc considers the m...
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...
MAN] Heb. _adam_ as in Genesis 1. AV renders the word as a proper name frequently in Genesis 2-4; RV gives 'man' throughout except Genesis 3:17; Genesis 4:25. GROUND] Heb. _adamah._ A connexion is thu...
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...
THE EYES OF THEM BOTH WERE OPENED. — This consciousness of guilt came upon them as soon as they had broken God’s commandment by eating of the forbidden fruit; and it is evident from the narrative that...
וַ תִּפָּקַ֨חְנָה֙ עֵינֵ֣י שְׁנֵיהֶ֔ם וַ יֵּ֣דְע֔וּ...
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 the eyes of them both were opened, and they (g) knew that they [were] naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. (g) They began to feel their misery, but they did not...
And the eyes, &c. Not that they were blind before, (for the woman saw that the tree was fair to the eyes, ver. 6.) nor yet that their eyes were opened to any more perfect knowledge of good; but only t...
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...
7._And the eyes of them both were opened_. It was necessary that the eyes of Eve should be veiled till her husband also was deceived; but now both, being alike bound by the chain of an unhappy consent...
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 THE EYES OF THEM BOTH WERE OPENED,.... Not of their bodies, but of their minds; not so as to have an advanced knowledge of things pleasant, profitable, and useful, as was promised and expected, bu...
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they [were] naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. Ver. 7. _They knew that they were naked._] Bereft of God's...
_The eyes of them both_ Of their minds and consciences, which hitherto had been closed and blinded by the arts of the devil; _were opened _ As Satan had promised them, although in a very different sen...
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...
The Investigation of God...
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves aprons. With their transgression, the eyes of the man and woman were...
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...
APRONS: Or, things to gird about...
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 EYES OF THEM BOTH. _The eyes_ of their minds and conscience, which hitherto had been closed and blinded by the arts of the devil, WERE OPENED, as the devil had promised them, though in a far diffe...
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 3:7 eyes H5869 both H8147 opened H6491 (H8735) they H1992 knew H3045 (H8799) naked H5903 sewed...
‘Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they knew that they were naked, and they joined fig leaves together and made themselves aprons.' What a dreadful moment. Having eaten they suddenly becam...
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 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...
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...
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...
_The eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked_ THE DAWN OF GUILT I. A CONSCIOUS LOSS OF RECTITUDE. Moral nudity (Revelation 3:17). 1. They deeply felt it. 2. They sought t...
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 3:1_ 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...
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:...
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 the. Genesis 3:5 Deuteronomy 28:34 2 Kings 6:20 Luke 16:23 knew. Genes
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 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...
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...