He will always reach for victory but always fall short of it. Clarke on nor shall you touch it: Some Jewish writers state that as soon as the woman had asserted this, the serpent pushed her against the tree and said, See, you have touched it, and are still alive; you may therefore safely eat of the fruit, for surely you shall not die.. God didnt ask Satan (the being animating the serpent) any questions because there was nothing to teach him. ii. Adam named her in faith, trusting God would bring forth a deliverer from the woman because God said He would defeat Satan through the Seed of the woman (Genesis 3:15). Yet you can do what is right before God right now by confessing and repenting. WebCommentary on Genesis 3:16-19. ii. ii. And you shall eat dust It is sin to exchange the truth of God for the lie (Romans 1:25). Adam probably had regard to the blessing of a Redeemer, the promised Seed, in calling his wife Eve, or life; for He should be the life of all believers, and in Him all the families of the earth should be blessed. Ezekiel 28 tells us Satan, before his fall, was an angel of the highest rank and prominence, even something of a leader of worship in heaven. WebWhen confronted with their sin, the man and woman confess, but also attempt to shift the blame to others. WebGenesis 3:17.
Enduring Word Bible Commentary Genesis Chapter 19 Genesis 3:17 Commentaries: Then to Adam He said, "Because Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife Obeyed her word and counsel, contrary to my express command. Major Prophets iii. Prophets Unto Satan couldnt cram the fruit down her throat. One must be hardened to willingly and knowingly serve Satan. i. We simply and strongly tell him, The Lord rebuke you! (Jude 9). (16-19) The first clothing of mankind. Major Prophets Therefore, it is Adam and not Eve who bears the responsibility for the fall of the human race and for the introduction of death into the created order (Romans 5:12, 1 Corinthians 15:22). 3. Individual instructors or editors may still require the use of URLs. You are cursed more than all cattle: The first part of the curse is directed at the animal that Satan used to bring the temptation. 2. From the beginning, Satan has tried to undermine Gods people by undermining Gods Word. i. Leupold on walking in the garden in the cool of the day: The almost casual way in which this is remarked indicates that this did not occur for the first time just then There is extreme likelihood that the Almighty assumed some form analogous to the human form which was made in His image.. The woman saw that the tree was good for food: Eves perceptions were partially true and partially false. If this fruit is something good for her, why doesnt God want her to have it? a. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Use semicolons to separate groups: 'Gen;Jdg;Psa-Mal' or 'Rom 3-12;Mat 1:15;Mat 5:12-22', There are options set in 'Advanced Options', The Whole Bible The devil contradicts Gods word by falsely assuring Adam and Eve, you shall not surely die.. i. Web19 By the sweat of your brow. Historical Books The story of this chapter is perhaps as sad a story (all things considered) as any we have in all the Bible. John 3:16, Jesus faith love), The Whole Bible Heaven and hell can never be reconciled, nor light and darkness; no more can Satan and a sanctified soul. He did a poor job of relating to his wife the word God gave him. The Old Testament Then the serpent said to the woman, You will not surely die. We read ( ch. If Satan doesnt couple it with some truth, there is little power in his temptation. Significantly, if there is any blame, it is on Adam, not Eve. c. In the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened: Satans temptation was all the more powerful because there was truth in it. Read full chapter. Has God said, Ye shall not lie, nor take his name in vain, nor be drunk, &c.? This shows the falsehood of the tempter, and the frauds of his temptations. 1. Martin Luther said of this verse: This text embraces and comprehends within itself everything noble and glorious that is to be found anywhere in the Scriptures (Leupold). He gave way to temptation, but the Saviour withstood it. He had no corrupt nature within, to betray him; but had a freedom of will, in full strength, not weakened or impaired. Because of the curse, Eve would have to fight a desire to master her husband, a desire that works against Gods ordained order for the home. A complete lie is rarely effective in temptation. b. Adam and his wife hid themselves: This shows that Adam and Eve knew that their attempt to cover themselves failed. Man's food shall become unpleasant to him. When he gave me the fruit, I ate of it.. Now work has a cursed element to it, with pain and weariness a part of work. He did not disclose his design at first, but he put a question which seemed innocent. Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had She saw. And Adam called his wifes name Eve, because she was the mother of all living. Pauline Epistles All the days of your life. The heel is the part within the serpents reach. Because of this, God has implanted it in the minds of men that more modesty is appropriate for these areas of our body. Historical Books Redeemed man this being who is greater than innocent man is only possible because man had something to be redeemed from. Thank you for registering. i. By proceeding, you consent to our cookie usage. The devil's instruments must share in the devil's punishments. Not in the dead of night when the natural glooms of darkness might have increased the terrors of the criminal, not in the heat of the day, lest he should imagine that God come in the heat of passion; not in the early morning, as if in haste to slay, but at the close of the day, for God is long-suffering, slow to anger, and of great mercy. (Spurgeon).
Genesis 19 Commentary Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil: The idea behind this phrase is difficult to understand. All the days of your life. And he said to the woman, Has God indeed said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?. Luke-Acts Your partnership makes all we do possible. She could have simply run from Satan and the tree, but Eve didnt take Gods way of escape. If this is true, it wasnt so strange to Eve that an angelic being might appear to her in the form of a beautiful pre-curse serpent. On your belly you shall go, She was not a mother at all, but as the life was to come through her by virtue of the promised seed, Adam marks his full conviction of the truth of the promise though at the time the woman had borne no children. (Spurgeon). And between your seed and her Seed; Now he moves in for the kill, with an outright contradiction of what God said. (Genesis 3:14-15) Gods curse upon the serpent. He was to live; the ground was to bring forth enough of the herb of the field for him to continue to exist. Adam and Eve were now miserable comforters to each other! iv. 3. His life also is but short; considering how full of trouble his days are, it is in favour to him that they are few. i. Any angel of the lowest rank could have dealt with Adam. Genesis 4. in the resource materials are not necessarily affirmed, in total, by this ministry. Her words, you shall not eat it and lest you die are close enough, but she added to the command and put words in Gods mouth when she said, nor shall you touch it. No condition will of itself bring content, unless the mind be brought to it. Or, perhaps the idea focuses on mans greater knowledge (though in a bad sense) now that he has the experiential knowledge of evil. The taking was all her doing. Satan tempted Eve, that by her he might tempt Adam. c. On your belly you shall go: Whatever noble bearing the creation known as the serpent had before the fall and the curse, that nobility was gone. i. ii. With anxiety and perhaps a bit of agony they waited until God patiently came to them. Their eyes were opened, they did know good and evil, but not as gods. Despite that, Adam and Eve needed only a bit of prompting from a talking serpent to There are only two religions; there is the religion of fig leaves and there is the religion of Gods perfect provision through Jesus. (Genesis 3:6) Adam and Eve both disobey God in their own way. Those who are willing to take the pleasure and profit of sin, are backward to take the blame and shame of it. i. So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. WebGenesis 3 tells the story of paradise lost by the willfulness of human sin.
Genesis 3 (14,15) The punishment of mankind. In 1995, New Age influence made it all the way to the White House. Because you have done this, Clothes came in with sin. His sufferings and death; pointed at in Satan's bruising his heel, that is, his human nature. e. Made themselves coverings: After making their coverings, Adam and Eve waited. a. Christ baffled Satan's temptations, rescued souls out of his hands. Adam sinned with his eyes wide open, in open rebellion against God. Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat? The Gospels In our courts of law, we do not require men to answer questions which would incriminate them, but God does; and, at the last great day, the ungodly will be condemned on their own confession of guilt (Spurgeon). The Old Testament Poetical Books Because of this sin, posterity has been cursed with overwhelming toil just to stay ahead, paradoxically for our ultimate benefit. Johannine Writings And how admirably the satisfaction of our Lord Jesus, by his death and sufferings, answered the sentence passed on our first parents! Under the cover of the serpent, the devil is sentenced to be degraded and accursed of God; detested and abhorred of all mankind: also to be destroyed and ruined at last by the great Redeemer, signified by the breaking of his head. ii. God confronted Adams problem squarely. For out of it you were taken; We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden, In the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, You will be like God, knowing good and evil, The woman saw that the tree was good for food, Then the eyes of both of them were opened, They heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, walking in the garden in the cool of the day, I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid. Poetical Books He promises advantage from their eating this fruit. Labour is our duty, which we must faithfully perform; it is part of man's sentence, which idleness daringly defies. 2018 David Guzik - No distribution beyond personal use without permission, The Whole Bible
Genesis 3:19 NIV - By the sweat of your brow you will eat - Bible Without a revelation of mercy, giving some hope of forgiveness, the convinced sinner would sink into despair, and be hardened. WebGenesis 3:19 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. King Man has, perhaps, far more cunning than any mere creature but Satan has more of cunning within him than any other creature that the Lord God hath made, man included. (Spurgeon). Let it not lessen our sorrow for sin, that we were beguiled into it; but let it increase our self-indignation, that we should suffer ourselves to be deceived by a known cheat, and a sworn enemy, who would destroy our souls. Also for Adam and his wife the LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed them. iii. They that would not eat the forbidden fruit, must not come near the forbidden tree. (20,21) Adam and Eve are driven out from paradise. It is more than probable that they were clothed in light before the fall, and when they sinned the light went out. (Barnhouse). a. 2. Are not his days also like the days of a hired man? e. The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate: Adams attempt to blame Eve is completely consistent with human nature. WebGenesis 3:16-19. i. The New Testament Eve misquoted Gods command to Adam. The New Testament So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life. God came to them personally, addressing Adam and Eve directly. And still the devil draws people into his interest, by suggesting to them hard thoughts of God, and false hopes of advantage by sin. In response, God issues three individual ''curses'' which affect humanity to this day. It speaks great encouragement to sinners, that their Saviour is the Seed of the woman, bone of our bone, Hebrews 2:11,14. If Adam would have sinned first, and if he had then given the fruit to Eve, she might have a partial excuse before God: I was simply obeying the head of our home. When we know and remember the consequences of sin, we are more likely to give up the passing pleasures of sin (Hebrews 11:25). b. Deceived me: The problem comes when we fail to see that being deceived is sin in itself. (1) The serpent begins his temptation.. Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD 2. d. Lest you die: This may seem like a small thing to hinge the destiny of the human race and all creation on. The curse of death shows that the result of Adams sin extended to the entire human race. He turned aside quickly. b. i. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forevertherefore the LORD God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken. Verse Genesis 3:19. WebBut the serpent said to the woman, You shall not surely die (Genesis 3:4) God had expressly declared to Adam, in the day that you eat of (the forbidden tree) you shall surely die.. Yet Adam is not himself cursed, as the serpent was, but only the ground for his sake.