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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 3:1-24

Genesis 3:1-Jeremiah : . 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 cleverness. In antiquity serpents were often regarded as mysteriously gifted with wisdom or cunning, sometimes as good but more often as evil. It is a mistake to think of it here as an incarnation of the devil; the ability to speak and reason is quite commonly... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 3:1

The serpent; or rather, this or that serpent; for here is an emphatical article, of which more by and by. The serpent's eminent subtlety is noted both in sacred Scripture, Genesis 49:17; Psalms 58:5; Matthew 10:16; 2 Corinthians 11:3, and by heathen authors, whereof these instances are given; that when it is assaulted, it secures its head; that it stops its ear at the charmer's voice; and the like. If it be yet said that some beasts are more subtle, and therefore this is not true; it may be... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 3:3

To wit, in order to the eating of it. Or the touch might be simply forbidden, or she might reasonably understand it to be forbidden in and by the prohibition of eating, because it was an occasion of sin, and therefore to be avoided. For it is not probable that the woman, being not yet corrupted, should knowingly add to God’s word, or maliciously insinuate the harshness of the precept. Others read, lest peradventure ye die, as if she doubted of the truth of the threatening; which seems not... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 3:4

It is not so certain as you imagine, that you shall die. God did say so indeed for your terror, and to keep you in awe; or, he had some mystical meaning in those words; but do not entertain such hard and unworthy thoughts of that God who is infinitely kind and gracious, that he will, for such a trifle as the eating of a little fruit, undo you and all your posterity, and so suddenly destroy the most excellent work of his own hands. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 3:5

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 and more noble kind of life; and the eyes of your minds, which are now shut as to the knowledge of a world of things, shall then be opened, and see things more fully and distinctly. Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil, or, as God, like unto God himself in the largeness of your knowledge; the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 3:6

The woman saw; by curious and accurate observation, and gazing upon it, or perceiving it by the serpent’s discourse, as was observed on Genesis 3:3. Pleasant to the eyes, to wit, in an eminent degree; for otherwise so were all the rest. To make one wise, which she might know by the serpent’s information. See Poole on "Genesis 3:1". Gave also unto her husband with her, who by this time was returned to her, and who now was with her; or, that he might eat with her, and take his part of that fruit.... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 3:7

The eyes of them both. The eyes of their minds and conscience, which hitherto had been closed and blinded by the arts of the devil, were opened, as the devil had promised them, though in a far differing and sadder sense. They knew that they were naked. They knew it before, when it was their glory, but now they know it with grief and shame, from a sense both of their guilt for the sin newly past, and of that sinful concupiscence which they now found working in them. They tied, twisted, or... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 3:8

The voice of the Lord God, mentioned Genesis 3:9, or rather the sound, as the word voice is often taken in Scripture, as Psalms 93:3; Revelation 10:3; Revelation 19:6. Either God the Father, or rather God the Son, appeared in the shape of a man, as afterwards he frequently did, to give a foretaste of his incarnation. About evening, the time when men use to walk abroad to recreate themselves, when there was a cool and refreshing wind, whereby also the voice of the Lord was more speedily and... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 3:9

The Lord God called with a loud voice: Thou whom I have so highly obliged, whither and wherefore dost thou run away from me, thy Friend and Father, whose presence was lately so sweet and acceptable to thee? In what place, or rather in what condition, art thou? What is the cause of this sudden and wonderful change? This he asks, not that he was ignorant of it, but to make way for the following sentence, and to set a pattern for all judges, that they should examine the offender, and inquire into... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 3:10

He confesseth his nakedness, which was evident, but saith nothing of his sin; which, if possible, he would have hid: see Job 31:33. And is grieved for the shameful effects of his sin, but not yet sincerely penitent for his sin. I hid myself, out of reverence to thy glorious majesty. read more

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 3:1-24

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 3:1

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 3:3

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 3:4

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 3:5

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 3:6

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 3:7

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 3:8

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 3:9

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 3:10

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