Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Genesis 3:18
thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.
thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.
Verse Genesis 3:18. _THORNS ALSO AND THISTLES, C._] Instead of producing nourishing grain and useful vegetables, noxious weeds shall be peculiarly prolific, injure the ground, choke the good seed, an...
- XVI. The Judgment 15. שׁוּף _shûp_ “bruise, wound.” τηρεῖν (=τερεῖν?) _tērein_ ἐκτρίβειν _ektribein_ Job 9:17, καταπατεῖν...
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...
THOU SHALT EAT THE HERB OF THE FIELD. Instead of drawing his sustenance from the spontaneous fruits of paradise, man would henceforth live mainly on the products of the field, secured by endless toil...
THORNS. The sign of the curse. What else was brought forth is not stated; but the word may include all kinds of noxious insects, &c, as well as poisonous weeds. It was. crown of "Thorns" that drew the...
_thorns also_, &c. These are not new products of the soil because of sin, but are typical of that which the earth brings forth of itself, and of ground neglected or rendered fallow by man's indolence....
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...
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...
_THORNS ALSO AND THISTLES SHALL IT BRING FORTH TO THEE; AND THOU SHALT EAT THE HERB OF THE FIELD;_ Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee - х_ QOWTS_ (H6975), a thorn (Ezekiel 28:24),...
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...
HELP MEET] This is not one word but two, the former being the noun and the latter the qualifying adjective on which the main emphasis lies. Man might have many helps; the vegetable and animal creation...
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...
‘Thorns’ and ‘thistles’ are two kinds of plant. They have sharp points. One cannot eat them....
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...
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...
וְ קֹ֥וץ וְ דַרְדַּ֖ר תַּצְמִ֣יחַֽ לָ֑ךְ וְ
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...
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...
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...
(t) Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; (t) These are not the natural fruit of the earth, but proceed from the corruption of sin....
_Thorns, &c. These were created at first, but they would have easily been kept under: now they grow with surprising luxuriancy, and the necessaries of life can be procured only with much labour. All m...
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...
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...
_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....
18._Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth_. He more largely treats of what he has already alluded to, namely, the participation of the fruits of the earth with labor and trouble. And he assign...
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...
THORNS ALSO AND THISTLES SHALL IT BRING FORTH TO THEE,.... Not for his advantage, but to give him more trouble, and cause him more fatigue and sorrow to root them up: these include all sorts of noxiou...
Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; Ver. 18. _Thorns also and thistles._] _Ubi veritas dixit, quod terra homini spinas et tribulos germina...
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...
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...
BRING FORTH: _ Heb._ cause to bud...
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...
THORNS ALSO AND THISTLES, and other unuseful and hurtful plants, synecdochically contained under these, SHALL IT BRING FORTH TO THEE, of its own accord, not to thy benefit, but to thy grief and punish...
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 3:18 thorns H6975 thistles H1863 forth H6779 (H8686) eat H398 (H8804) herb H6212 field H7704 Thorns -...
‘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...
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 3:17 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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
_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....
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;...
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...
Thorns. Joshua 23:13 Job 5:5 Job 31:40 Proverbs 22:5 Proverbs 24:31...
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...
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...