Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Genesis 3:5
ye shall be as gods. be as God, Hebrew. Elohim. This is the foundation of Satan's second lie: "The immanence of God in man. "
ye shall be as gods. be as God, Hebrew. Elohim. This is the foundation of Satan's second lie: "The immanence of God in man. "
Verse Genesis 3:5. _YOUR EYES SHALL BE OPENED_] Your understanding shall be greatly enlightened and improved; _and ye shall be as gods_, כאלהים kelohim, like God, so the word should be translated; fo...
- Section III - The Fall - The Fall 1. נחשׁ _nachash_ “serpent; related: hiss,” Gesenius; “sting,” Mey. ערוּם _'ārûm_ “subtle, crafty, using craft for defence.” 7. תפר _tāpar_ “sew, stitch, tack...
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...
FOR GOD DOTH KNOW... YOUR EYES SHALL BE OPENED. The father of lies declares that, instead of dying as. consequence of eating of the forbidden tree, and thus disobeying God, those who eat are made as...
_for God doth know_, &c. Having denied the fact of the penalty, the serpent proceeds to suggest that there is an unjust motive for the threat. It is not, he says, for the good of the man and the woman...
SHALL BE AS GODS, KNOWING GOOD AND EVIL— כאלהים _keelohim, like God._ See note on Genesis 3:22....
PART TWELVE: THE BEGINNING OF MORAL EVIL ON EARTH (Genesis 3:1-8) 1. _The Generations of the Heavens and of the Earth._ We need to recall here briefly the significance of this phrase. The term genera...
_FOR GOD DOTH KNOW THAT IN THE DAY YE EAT THEREOF, THEN YOUR EYES SHALL BE OPENED, AND YE SHALL BE AS GODS, KNOWING GOOD AND EVIL._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
3:5 but (a-1) Or 'for.' God, (b-22) Or 'as gods.'...
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...
‘You will distinguish things clearly.’ This does not mean that they would see more clearly. It means that they would know the difference between good things and evil things. V6 Then the woman saw tha...
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...
YE SHALL BE AS GODS. — Rather, _as God,_ as Elohim himself, in the particular quality of knowing good and evil. It was a high bait which the tempter offered; and Eve, who at first had answered rightly...
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...
כִּ֚י יֹדֵ֣עַ אֱלֹהִ֔ים כִּ֗י בְּ יֹום֙ אֲכָל
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...
MAN AND WOMAN, TEMPTATION Genesis 2:18; Genesis 3:1 Human love is God's best gift to man. Without it even Eden would not be Paradise. That Adam was able to name the animals, affixing a title suggeste...
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...
For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, (e) knowing good and evil. (e) As though he said, God forbids you to eat of the fruit, only...
God. The old serpent's aim is, to make us think God envies our happiness. (Haydock) --- Or he would have Eve to suppose, she had not rightly understood her maker, who would surely never deprive her of...
For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. Reader! remark the progress of the enemy. He had before been working u...
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...
5._For God doth know. _There are those who think that God is here craftily praised by Satan, as if He never would prohibit men from the use of wholesome fruit. But they manifestly contradict themselve...
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...
FOR GOD DOTH KNOW,.... Or "but k God doth know", who knows all things, and has foreknowledge of all future events; he foreknows what will be the consequence of this event, eating the fruit of this tre...
For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. Ver. 5. _For God doth know, &c._] It should take care of itself becau...
The tempter, finding that the woman began to doubt whether eating this fruit was a crime, and if it were, whether punishment would follow, now became more bold in his attack, and, giving God the lie d...
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...
for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. Not satisfied with having awakened doubt in the woman's heart, the Tem...
The Temptation and Fall...
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...
1-5 Satan assaulted our first parents, to draw them to sin, and the temptation proved fatal to them. The tempter was the devil, in the shape and likeness of a serpent. Satan's plan was to draw our fi...
If you would have the whole truth of the matter, and God's design in that prohibition, it is only this, He knoweth that you shall be so far from dying, that ye shall certainly be entered into a new an...
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 3:5 God H430 knows H3045 (H8802) day H3117 eat H398 (H8800) eyes H5869 opened H6491 ...
‘And the snake said to the woman, “You shall not surely die, for God knows that in the day you eat of it then your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God knowing good and evil”.' The snake know...
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 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...
_Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field_ THE FIRST GREAT TEMPTATION I. THAT THE HUMAN SOUL IS FREQUENTLY TEMPTED BY A DIRE FOE OF UNUSUAL SUBTLETY. 1. The tempter of human soul...
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 3:4 The serpent directly contradicts what God has said. He presents the fruit of the tree as something worth having. By eating it, he says, Adam and Eve will be LIKE GOD, KNOW...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Genesis 3:1_ THE FIRST GREAT TEMPTATION It is well for the military general to study the plan and the history of great battles that have been fought in the past, i...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 3:1 How long the paradisiacal state of innocence and felicity continued the historian does not declare, probably as not falling within the scope of his immediate design. Psalms 49:...
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...
God. Exodus 20:7 1 Kings 22:6 Jeremiah 14:13 Jeremiah 14:14 Jeremia
THE TEMPTATION Genesis 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There are some very vital questions which naturally tome to most minds. These we will seek to answer. 1. DID GOD KNOW THAT MAN WOULD SIN WHEN HE CREATE...
THE FIRST WOMAN Genesis 2:20; Genesis 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS When we enter into the Bible story of creation there is something that makes it all seem so real, so definite, and so certain. Evolution...
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...
Is man made like God or does he become like God? PROBLEM: Genesis 1:27 says “God created man in His own image.” But in Genesis 3:22 God said, “the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil....