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 spoiled God’s plans. Therefore, people would not have all the good things from God. They would not have plenty to eat. And they would have to work very hard.
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...
- 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...
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...
CURSED. Nature affected. Romans 8:19....
_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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
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 לְ אָדָ֣ם אָמַ֗ר כִּ֥י ־שָׁמַעְתָּ֮ לְ
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...
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: (s) cursed [is] the ground for t...
_Thy work, sin; thy perdition is from thyself: this is all that man can challenge for his own. (Haydock)_...
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....
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...
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 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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
The Curse of God...
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...
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...
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...
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 3:17 Adam H121 said H559 (H8804) heeded H8085 (H8804) voice H6963 wife H802 eaten H398 ...
‘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 3:17 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 3:17 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...
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 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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
Because. 1 Samuel 15:23 1 Samuel 15:24 Matthew 22:12 Matthew 25:26...
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...
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...