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James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 3:20

"And the man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living."We observed the obvious reason for the inclusion of this verse in the discussion of Genesis 3:15, above. This verse also has the utility of emphasizing that Adam and Eve were the first humans on earth, and that all subsequent generations of the human family descended from them, a fact also inherent in the apostolic injunction that God "made of one," all the families of men to dwell on the earth (Acts 17:26). read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 3:1

Genesis 3:1. The serpent— If, in the account of the fall, there should be many difficulties, it will not seem strange to any who observe, that Moses gives only general hints, sufficient to acquaint us indeed with the fact, that man transgressed the divine command; but by no means sufficient to inform us of every minute particular respecting that fact. We are, however, sufficiently assured from those texts, in which Satan is spoken of as the tempter of man, and the introducer of sin and death... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 3:3

Genesis 3:3. Neither shall ye touch it— Words which some expositors have supposed to contain a prevarication on the part of Eve; but they express no more than a strong confirmation of the former clause. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 3:4

Genesis 3:4. The serpent said, ye shall not die— The woman having urged God's malediction, the tempter was interested to remove its force, without which it was impossible for him to prevail. And therefore, with the most daring, yet subtle boldness, he contradicts the divine assertion, and throws the vilest aspersion upon God's goodness, by assuring the woman, that by eating the fruit she would be so far from dying, as she feared, that she would be made wise as God himself. And this he urges as... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 3:5

Genesis 3:5. Shall be as gods, knowing good and evil— כאלהים keelohim, like God. See note on Genesis 3:22. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 3:6

Genesis 3:6. Saw that the tree was good for food, &c.— It is not easy to determine how the woman could discover this, unless by supposing, as we have done in a note above, that she saw the serpent eat of it, and that without prejudice, nay, with great advantage to him, raised, as he seemed, by means of this good food, from the animal to the rational nature: well might she therefore conclude, that by the same means she should be raised from the rational to the divine nature. Thus pride, as... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 3:7

Genesis 3:7. And the eyes of them both were opened, &c.— They found what the serpent had asserted to be true, Gen 3:5 but in a manner far different from expectation. Their eyes were opened, but not to a view of higher happiness: they were opened only to a sense of their sin, and consequently of their guilty shame. The phrase of their eyes being opened, in scripture, not only refers to the actual opening of the eyes, but also to men's observing or knowing any thing of which they before were... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 3:8

Genesis 3:8. And they heard, &c.— This may be rendered, and they heard the sound of the Lord God proceeding or coming into the garden, at the decline, or in the cool of the day, whether morning or evening. The word, which our translators render voice, קול koll, denotes any sort of sound; and the root of that word, which we render walking, denotes local motion, going, in any way, or manner. The word קול koll, sound, is applied to two appearances of the Deity: one mentioned, 1 Kings 19:12.... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 3:9

Genesis 3:9. And the Lord God, &c.— It is not to be supposed that the Omniscient either knew not where Adam and Eve were, or wanted to be informed of what they had done, when he asked the questions in this and the 11th verse: but these questions are used to introduce the account following, and to shew us, more humano, after the manner of men, what was the consequence of this great transgression. This observation should be remembered, as many instances of the like kind occur. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 3:10

Genesis 3:10. Because I was naked— That is, not only naked in body, but, what much more occasions my fear, naked in mind through sin; guilty, and stript of my original righteousness, and therefore ashamed to stand before thee. read more

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