With a threefold death.
1. Spiritual, by the guilt and power of sin: at that instant thou shalt be dead in trespasses and sins, Ephesians 2:1.
2. Temporal, or the death of the body, which shall then begin in thee, by decays, infirmities, terrors, dangers, and other harbingers of death.
3. Eternal, which shall immediately succeed the other.
Verse Genesis 2:17. _OF THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE - THOU SHALT NOT EAT_] This is the _first positive precept_ God gave to man; and it was given as a test of obedience, and a proof of his being in a _...
- XII. The Command 15. נוּח _nûach_ “rest, dwell.” עבד _‛__ābad_ “work, till, serve.” שׁמר _shāmar_ “keep, guard.” We have here the education of man summed up in a single sentence. Let us endeavo...
II. THE GENERATIONS OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH Man in Innocency before the Fall Genesis 2:4-45 _ 1. The earth his abode (Genesis 2:4)_ 2. The creation of man (Genesis 2:7) 3. The garden of Eden...
J'S STORY OF CREATION AND PARADISE LOST. This story does not belong to P, for it is free from its characteristics in style, vocabulary, and point of view. It is distinguished from P's creation story b...
The narrative begins with the words In the day, but the construction is uncertain. Perhaps Genesis 2:5 f. is a parenthesis, so that man was formed at the period when earth and heaven (J's phrase for P...
J'S STORY OF CREATION AND PARADISE LOST. This story does not belong to P, for it is free from its characteristics in style, vocabulary, and point of view. It is distinguished from P's creation story b...
TREE. Note the three trees: "Knowledge" (Genesis 2:9), man's Ruin; "the Cross" (Acts 10:39; Acts 5:30; 1 Peter 2:24), man's Redemption; "the Tree of Life" ...
_of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil_ See above, on Genesis 2:9. Here only one tree is mentioned, as in Genesis 3:3; and it seems not unlikely that the mention of "the tree of life" did not...
DISCOURSE: 3 COVENANT MADE WITH ADAM Genesis 2:16. _And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil t...
OF EVERY TREE, &C.— Rich in his bounty, and free in his donations, the liberal Creator of all things here gives a large and extensive grant to his creature, allowing the free use of all those various...
PART NINE: THE BEGINNING OF SOCIETY (Genesis 2:8-25) And Jehovah God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made Jehovah God to grow ev...
_BUT OF THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL, THOU SHALT NOT EAT OF IT: FOR IN THE DAY THAT THOU EATEST THEREOF THOU SHALT SURELY DIE._ The tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt no...
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...
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...
We can be sure that God made this tree for a good purpose. Perhaps he intended that men and women should eat its fruit later, at the right time. But it certainly made Adam and Eve distinguish between...
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 2 GOD RESTS V1 So the sky and the earth were complete. Everything that was in them was complete. V2 On the seventh day, God had finished his work...
THE LORD GOD COMMANDED. — Probation is the law of man’s moral condition now, and it began in Paradise, only the conditions there were different. (See _Excursus_ at end of this book.) IN THE DAY.... —...
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...
וּ מֵ עֵ֗ץ הַ דַּ֨עַת֙ טֹ֣וב וָ...
THE CREATION Genesis 1:1; Genesis 2:1 IF anyone is in search of accurate information regarding the age of this earth, or its relation to the sun, moon, and stars, or regarding the order in which plan...
MAN IN EDEN, INNOCENCE Genesis 2:1 The first paragraph belongs to the previous chapter, as is clear from the use of the same term for God- _Elohim._ God's Rest was not from weariness, or exhaustion,...
This chapter gives us a fuller account of man. Three distinct movements are chronicled in the brief but comprehensive account. First, "Jehovah God formed man of the dust." The Hebrew word "formed" su...
MAN IS DIFFERENT Until man's creation, everything was spoken into existence. Man was different (Genesis 1:26; Genesis 2:7). God took of the dust of the earth and made man in his own image. Man's liken...
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely (m) die. (m) By death he means the separation of man from God, w...
The death of the soul, and become obnoxious to that of the body; thou shalt become a mortal and lose all the privileges of innocence. Though Adam lived 930 years after this, he was dying daily; he car...
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. The tree of life, (Genesis 2:9) perhaps an emblem, or token...
_THE ONE FORBIDDEN THING_ ‘But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.’ Genesis 2:17 These words comp...
In chapter 2 we have man's relationship with God, and his own portion as such. Hence the LORD [1] God is introduced: not merely God as a creator, but God in relationship with those He has created. Hen...
BUT OF THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL,.... Of the name of this tree, and the reasons of it, Genesis 2:9 THOU SHALT NOT EAT OF IT; not that this tree had any efficacy in it to increase knowle...
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Ver. 17. _But of the tree, &c._] An exploratory prohibition...
Gen. 2:17. "In the day that thou eatest thereof, dying thou shalt die." This expression denotes not only the certainty of death, but the extremity of it. Thou shalt die, in the superlative and to the...
_Of the tree of knowledge thou shalt not eat_ Hitherto God has been manifested as man's powerful Creator and bountiful Benefactor: now he appears as his _Ruler_ and _Lawgiver_, and, as such, enters in...
1 The first Sabbath. 4 The maner of the creation. 8 The planting of the garden of Eden, 10 and the riuer thereof. 17 The tree of knowledge onely forbidden. 19-20 The naming of the creatures. 21 T...
Adam placed into the Garden...
but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. This was a very general permission or command: of every tree...
SECOND SECTION _Man—Paradise—the Paradisaical Pair and the Paradisaical Institutions,—Theocratic—Jehovistic._ GENESIS 2:4-25. A. The Earth waiting for Man. 4These are the generations [genealogies]...
THE SEVENTH DAY The first three verses here are directly connected with chapter 1. "Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished." The work of the first creation occupied s...
SURELY DIE: _ Heb._ dying thou shalt die...
16,17 Let us never set up our own will against the holy will of God. There was not only liberty allowed to man, in taking the fruits of paradise, but everlasting life made sure to him upon his obedie...
The chapter introduces to our notice two prominent subjects, namely, "the seventh day" and "the river." The first of these demands special attention. There are few subjects on which so much misunderst...
Genesis 2:17 tree H6086 knowledge H1847 good H2896 evil H7451 eat H398 (H8799) day H3117 eat H398 ...
MAN'S ESTABLISHMENT AND FALL (GENESIS 2:4 TO GENESIS 3:24) TABLET II. Genesis 2 and Genesis 3 form a unit distinguished by the fact that God is called Yahweh Elohim (Lor
THE TREE-COVERED PLAIN IN EDEN (GENESIS 2:4). ‘In the day that the Lord God made earth and heavens, when no plant (siach) of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb (‘eseb) of the field had yet sp...
‘And the Lord God commanded the man saying, “You may freely eat of every tree in the Plain, but concerning the tree of knowing good and evil you shall not eat of it, for in the day that you eat of it...
Genesis 2:17 These words comprehend the whole of humanity in their application; every man and woman that ever has existed or shall exist on the face of the earth. This was not a positive law, but a n...
Genesis 2:1. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work whi...
CONTENTS: God's Sabbath rest. The creative act of Genesis 1:27 explained. The Edenic covenant. CHARACTERS: God, Adam, Eve. CONCLUSION: Man is a threefold being, body, soul and spirit. The real man i...
Genesis 2:1. By _host_ is meant, not the angels, as some have thought, but the starry heavens. Psalms 33:6. Genesis 2:2. _On the seventh day God ended his work._ The Samaritan Pentateuch reads, the si...
_In the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die._ THE FALL OF MAN These words were fulfilled at the time they were spoken; they have been fulfilled ceaselessly thereafter. We live in a un...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 2:17 The fruit of THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL has been variously understood as giving (1) sexual awareness, (2) moral discrimination, (3) moral responsibility, a...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 2:4 Earth’s First People. Centered initially on the garden of Eden, the episodes in this part of Genesis 1:1 recount how God’s ordered creation is thrown
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 2:14. East of Assyria] So Ges. and Dav. Lit., “before A.” wh. to a writer in Pal. is = west (Fürst). GENESIS 2:17. SURELY DIE] Heb. “die, die shalt thou;” as in Genesis 2:16...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 2:8 In accordance with a well-known characteristic of Hebrew composition, the writer, having carried his subject forward to a convenient place of rest, now reverts to a point of ti...
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had mad...
of the tree. Genesis 2:9 Genesis 3:1 Genesis 3:11 Genesis 3:17 Genesis 3:19 thou
Why didn’t Adam die the day he ate the forbidden fruit, as God said he would? PROBLEM: God said to Adam, “in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die” (Genesis 2:17). But Adam lived to be 930...