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James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 3:1

THE TEMPTATION OF MAN‘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?’ Genesis 3:1 (1)The writer of the narrative intended to imply, by his language, the existence and operation of a personal agent of evil. I. The tempter is admitted into the garden.—The garden was not a sacred enclosure, which he was forbidden to enter. It was not meant then, any more than... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 3:8

CONCEALMENT FROM GOD IMPOSSIBLE‘Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.’ Genesis 3:8 I. That which strikes us first of all is, that Adam represents the average sinner.—A man may do worse than Adam. Many men have done and do worse than hide themselves from God after outraging Him by sin. Adam’s conduct proves that the sense of God’s presence, awfulness, greatness, was still intact in his soul. II. ‘They hid themselves.’—It was not the... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 3:10

COWARDICE AND CANT‘I heard Thy voice … and I was afraid.’ Genesis 3:10 I. ‘I heard Thy voice … and I was afraid.’ The words are Adam’s words, spoken after that first sin, which we are told about in to-day’s first morning lesson. Was Adam a coward when he uttered them?Yes, he was—a conscience-made coward, like many a one after him. He is a coward after his sin, not before it; in his rebellion against God, and not in His service. And the same thing has been true in the case of thousands of His... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 3:13

THE EXCUSE OF THE TEMPTED‘And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.’ Genesis 3:13 I. The record before us is the History of the First Sin.—It needed no revelation to tell us that sin is, that mankind is sinful. Without, within, around, and inside us, is the fact, the experience, the evidence, the presence of sin. It is sin which makes life troublous and gives death its sting. The revelation of the Fall... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 3:15

THE EARLIEST GOSPEL‘I will put enmity between thee and the woman,’ etc. Genesis 3:15 I. The first time Prophecy opened her lips, it was to pronounce these words. To our first parents they were full of hope and consolation. In some mysterious way their loss was to be repaired; a Deliverer was to be provided. This promise was all their Bible. What, in truth, is all the rest of Scripture but the development of this great primeval promise of a Redeemer? II. Never for an instant was this... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 3:16-18

SINNERS MUST SUFFER‘Unto the woman He said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception,’ etc. Genesis 3:16-Job : By the Fall sin entered in, and by sin a change passed over the whole world. The change affected the moral relations of man. In becoming disobedient to God, he lost all control over himself. While subject to the Divine Will, he wielded absolute power over his own nature. His passions were then pure ones, held in a bond of unity and subjection. But when he rebelled, they... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 3:1

Catastrophe In The Garden (3:1-24). Genesis 3:1 a ‘Now the snake was wiser than any creature that the Lord God had made.’ The word for snake always refers to ordinary snakes in the Old Testament, with the exception of Isaiah 27:1 and possibly Amos 9:3. However these exceptions do show that the Israelites were familiar with the myths of surrounding peoples relating to ‘snakes’ and ‘serpents’, which were often looked on as semi-divine creatures involved in evil, although also often in good. It... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 3:1-24

Man’s Establishment and Fall (Genesis 2:4 to Genesis 3:24 ) TABLET II. Genesis 2:0 and Genesis 3:0 form a unit distinguished by the fact that God is called Yahweh Elohim (Lord God), a usage repeated, and constantly used, all the way through (apart from in the conversation between Eve and the serpent), a phrase which occurs elsewhere in the Pentateuch only once, in Exodus 9:30 where it is connected with the thought that the earth is Yahweh’s. It thus connects with creation. This distinctive... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 3:2-3

‘And the woman said to the snake, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden. But God has said ‘you shall not eat of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, nor shall you touch it, lest you die’.”.’ The woman’s conscience is struggling to be fair to God. But she cannot help but think of THAT tree, and she slightly ameliorates God’s warning and slightly exaggerates His demands. God had not said ‘lest you die’, He had said ‘you shall surely die’. Dangerously she has in... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 3:4-5

‘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 knows he has won. He now drops his mask. He no longer prevaricates but blatantly and with stress reveals his true nature. No ordinary snake could be seen as speaking like this, for he is forcefully claiming to know better than God. The reader has his suspicions confirmed that something dreadfully... read more

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