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Verse Genesis 3:17. _UNTO ADAM HE SAID_] The man being the _last_ in
the transgression is brought up _last_ to receive his sentence:
_Because_ _thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife _- "thou...
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- XVI. The Judgment
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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II. THE CURSE.--The Bible student should read carefully the verses
intervening between the 6th and the 17th. These tell of the arrest of
the guilty pair, their arraignment, their excuses, the curse up...
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CURSED. Nature affected. Romans 8:19....
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_cursed is the ground_ The man is addressed as one who in the future
is to be dependent upon the soil for the means of subsistence. Not
man, but the ground for man's sake, is accursed. Its fruitfulnes...
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The Sentence
14. _cursed art thou_ The word "cursed" is only used in addressing the
serpent, as the originator of the temptation, and in reference to "the
ground" as the sphere of man's penalty (Gene...
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UNTO ADAM HE SAID, &C.— Now follows the curse of the man, who is
doomed to toil and labour for his food and support all the days of his
life; labour upon a soil, cursed for his sake, and consequently...
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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 UNTO ADAM HE SAID, BECAUSE THOU HAST HEARKENED UNTO THE VOICE OF
THY WIFE, AND HAST EATEN OF THE TREE, OF WHICH I COMMANDED THEE,
SAYING, THOU SHALT NOT EAT OF IT: CURSED IS THE GROUND FOR THY SA...
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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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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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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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God intended to give good things to people. He intended to show to
people how they could live well on the earth. But Adam and Eve did not
obey God. They did what he had told them not to do. That spoil...
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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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UNTO ADAM (WITHOUT THE ARTICLE, AND THEREFORE A PROPER NAME) HE SAID.
— Lange thoughtfully remarks that while the woman was punished by
the entrance of sorrow into the small subjective world of her wo...
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וּ לְ אָדָ֣ם אָמַ֗ר כִּ֥י
־שָׁמַעְתָּ֮ לְ
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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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_Thy work, sin; thy perdition is from thyself: this is all that man
can challenge for his own. (Haydock)_...
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In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto
the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto
dust shalt thou return.
Job 17:13; Psalms 22:15. How sweet a...
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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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_SINNERS MUST SUFFER_
‘Unto the woman He said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy
conception,’ etc.
Genesis 3:16
By the Fall sin entered in, and by sin a change passed over the whole
world....
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17._And unto Adam he said_. In the first place, it is to be observed,
that punishment was not inflicted upon the first of our race so as to
rest on those two alone, but was extended generally to all t...
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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 UNTO ADAM HE SAID,.... Last of all, being the last that sinned,
but not to be excused:
BECAUSE THOU HAST HEARKENED UNTO THE VOICE OF THY WIFE; which was not
only mean but sinful, since it was opp...
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And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of
thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee,
saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed [is] the ground for thy s...
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_Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife_ Obeyed her word
and counsel, contrary to my express command. He excused the fault by
laying it on his wife, but God doth not admit the excuse: th...
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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 unto Adam He said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of
thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee,
saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake...
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The Curse 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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16-19 The woman, for her sin, is condemned to a state of sorrow, and
of subjection; proper punishments of that sin, in which she had sought
to gratify the desire of her eye, and of the flesh, and her...
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HEARKENED UNTO THE VOICE OF THY WIFE, i.e. obeyed the word and
counsel, contrary to my express command. CURSED IS THE GROUND, which
shall now yield both fewer and worse fruits, and those too with more...
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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 3:17 Adam H121 said H559 (H8804) heeded H8085 (H8804) voice
H6963 wife H802 eaten H398 ...
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‘And to the man he said, “Because you have listened to your wife's
voice, and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you ‘you
shall not eat of it', cursed is the ground because of you; in toil
(p...
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Genesis 3:17
This was almost the first curse revealed to us as pronounced by God,
and yet it is almost the first blessing.
I. At first sight we are _not_prepared to admit that labour is a
blessing. W...
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Genesis 3:17
The ground is our first lesson-book. Notice (1) A man does not
cultivate the land by waving his hand majestically over it. The land
says, "If you want anything out of me you must work for...
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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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_Cursed is the ground for thy sake_
A CURSE WHICH PROVES A BLESSING
This was almost the first curse revealed to us as pronounced by God,
and yet it is almost the first blessing.
I. AT FIRST SIGHT WE...
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_What is this that thou hast done?_
THE GENERAL RESULTS OF THE FALL
I. ETERNAL ENMITY BETWEEN SATAN AND HUMANITY (Genesis 3:14).
1. This curse was uttered in reference to Satan.
2. This address is...
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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 3:17 Because he has eaten what was
prohibited (v. Genesis 3:6), Adam will have to struggle to eat in the
future. He will no longer enjoy the garden’s abundance but will have
to...
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_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Genesis 3:13_
THE GENERAL RESULTS OF THE FALL OF OUR FIRST PARENTS
I. The result of the fall of our first parents is an eternal enmity
between Satan and humanity....
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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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Because. 1 Samuel 15:23 1 Samuel 15:24 Matthew 22:12 Matthew 25:26...
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THE CURSE AND THE CURE
Genesis 3:14
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
1. We have for today a curse without a cure. When God spoke to the
serpent He pronounced a curse upon him, which neither in the Garden,
nor su...
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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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Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife — He excused
the fault, by laying it on his wife, but God doth not admit the
excuse; tho' it was her fault to persuade him to eat it, it was his
fa...