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Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 3:7

Genesis 3:7The eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were nakedThe dawn of guiltI.A CONSCIOUS LOSS OF RECTITUDE. Moral nudity (Revelation 3:17). 1. They deeply felt it. 2. They sought to conceal it. II. AN ALARMING DREAD OF GOD. 1. This was unnatural. 2. Irrational. 3. Fruitless. God found Adam out. III. A MISERABLE SUBTERFUGE FOR SIN. The transferring of our own blame to others has ever marked the history of sin. Some plead circumstance, some their organization, and some the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 3:8

Genesis 3:8They heard the voice of the Lord GodGod’s voice in natureWhether their ears as well as their hearts heard God’s voice does not much matter.It would have mattered if their ears and not their hearts had heard. They doubtless often heard Him in the evening hour--the twilight which all the faiths of all cultivated nations have chosen as their special season of devotion. When they heard, and when men now hear God’s voice in garden, meadow, wood, of what does it tell? I. OF GOD’S PRESENCE.... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 3:9-12

Genesis 3:9-12Where art thou?--God’s questionI. The speaker is God; the person spoken to is the representative of us all. II. The call is--1. Individual. 2. Universal. III. God calls in three ways. 1. In conscience. 2. In providence. 3. In revelation. IV. His call is--1. To attention. 2. To recognition of God’s being. 3. To reflection on our own place and position. V. It is a call which each must answer for himself, and which each ought to answer without delay. (Dean Vaughan.)An important... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 3:13-21

Genesis 3:13-21What is this that thou hast done?--The general results of the FallI. ETERNAL ENMITY BETWEEN SATAN AND HUMANITY (Genesis 3:14). 1. This curse was uttered in reference to Satan. 2. This address is different from that made to Adam and Eve. 3. There was to commence a severe enmity and conflict between Satan and the human race. (1) This enmity has existed from the early ages of the world’s history.(2) This enmity is seeking the destruction of the higher interests of man. (3) This... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 3:14

Genesis 3:14Upon thy belly shalt thou goThe Divine sentence on the serpent1.I lay down the position that no punishment in the way of physical degradation was inflicted by God in His sentence upon the serpent tribe. No doubt this idea has been held by most of those in past days who knew very little of natural history or of science; and it is held still by some who have no capacity of understanding scientific evidence. They cherish still, it may be, some strange notion that serpents, once upon a... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 3:15

Genesis 3:15I will put enmity between thee and the womanThe believer’s conflict with SatanI.THAT THERE IS A CONTINUAL CONFLICT BETWEEN SATAN AND EVERY BELIEVER IN JESUS CHRIST, WHOM HE REPRESENTED IN THE FIRST PROMISE, ACCORDING TO THE PURPOSE AND GRACE OF ALMIGHTY GOD. II. In that stern combat which the Lord of glory, God manifest in the flesh, was to wage with Satan, it was declared that the enemy should bruise the heel of the seed of the woman, and that Jesus should not get the victory... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 3:16

Genesis 3:16In sorrow thou shalt bring forth childrenMotherhood a blessing and an educationI.IN MATERNITY A WOMAN COMPLETES HER NATURE. Every sorrow of body or soul is made into a new thread in the web of affection which she weaves round the life of the child for whom she suffers. II. SHE HAS ANOTHER BLESSING IN A CERTAIN EASE IN LOSING SELF. Men find it less natural to be unselfish. The mother almost spontaneously drops off the robe of self. III. HER SORROW OF MATERNITY BRINGS A BLESSING TO... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 3:17

Genesis 3:17Cursed is the ground for thy sakeA curse which proves a blessingThis 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. We shrink from the misery of task work which must be got through when we are least fitted to carry it on; the very word “repose” suggests all that is most coveted by men. It was a true instinct which led the old mythologist to invent the... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 3:1

Gen 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? Ver. 1. Now the serpent was more subtile, &c. ] And so a more fit instrument of that old serpent the devil, that deceiveth all the world. Rev 12:9 a Good natural parts abused, prove rather as pressmoney to impiety, b as he phraseth it, and their wisdom was the crime counselor, culpa suasoria as... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 3:2

Gen 3:2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: Ver. 2. And the woman said unto the serpent. ] Our first parents were not, in the state of innocency, silly and witless, like young children, as Socinians make them; but very knowing, though but of small experience. But if they fell the same day a wherein they were created, as most hold, how sudden was the serpent’s seducing, the woman’s consenting, Adam’s yielding, and God’s executing! a ημερα... read more

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