Then the eyes of both of them were opened: Seemingly, it was only after the sin of Adam that they knew of their sinful state. God bid man go out; told him he should no longer occupy and enjoy that garden: but man liked the place, and was unwilling to leave it, therefore God made him go out. iii. We are called to talk to the devil, but never to have a discussion with him. ii. Luke-Acts And let those that are finely clad, learn not to make the putting on of apparel their adorning. WebGenesis 19:3. i. The lifting of a bronze serpent is the lifting up of sin judged, in the form of a cross. d. You shall eat dust all the days of your life: This was true of the serpent as an animal, but it is also true of Satan. You will not surely die: Satan first wanted Eve to forget all about what God said about the consequences of sin. e. The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate: Adams attempt to blame Eve is completely consistent with human nature. Is there not a time of hard service for man on earth? All Rights Reserved. We all sin, but when we sin, we can still give glory to God by openly confessing without shifting the blame onto others (Joshua 7:19-20). Such are all the rags of our own righteousness. 1. ii. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point Significantly, if there is any blame, it is on Adam, not Eve. And I will put enmity Satan assaulted our first parents, to draw them to sin, and the temptation proved fatal to them. You were made from He chose to be with Eve instead of obeying God. If this fruit is something good for her, why doesnt God want her to have it? Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings. i. i. Matthew Henrys Bible Commentary (concise), Matthew Henry Bible Commentary (complete), California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. In virtually all cultures, adults cover their genital areas, even though other parts of the human body may be more or less exposed from culture to culture. Because of this, God has implanted it in the minds of men that more modesty is appropriate for these areas of our body. Did sweat come in with sin? The Gospels WebLot and his family flee toward the nearby city of Zoar while God rains sulfur and fire onto Sodom and Gomorrah. Satan tempted Eve, that by her he might tempt Adam. She couldnt rightly say, the devil made me do it.. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.. So he said, I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself. And He said, Who told you that you were naked? Satan came in the form of a serpent to tempt Eve ii. God knew the answer to this question. There is a strange proneness in those that are tempted, to say, they are tempted of God; as if our abuse of God's gifts would excuse our breaking God's laws. i. He tempts them to seek preferment, as if they were fit to be gods. What Satan said is more important than how he said it. God placed a natural animosity between Satan and mankind. All the days of your life. General Epistles Satan teaches men first to doubt, and then to deny. The creature that tempted Eve became a serpent as a result of Gods judgment on it, and it went slithering away into the bushes. (Boice), ii. Prophets The idea that the woman takes her name from the husband, and the idea that both genders are encompassed in terms like mankind, humanity, and chairman. Minor Prophets b. Adam and his wife hid themselves: This shows that Adam and Eve knew that their attempt to cover themselves failed. Now the two angels came to conservative Christian faith, which includes a firm belief in the inerrancy This is not because there is something intrinsically unclean in our sexuality, but because we have both received our fallenness and pass it on genetically through sexual reproduction. c. The eyes of both of them were opened: The way they saw themselves changed, but also the way they saw the entire world was now different. In pain you shall bring forth children; Revelation 12:9 and 20:2 speak of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan. He drew Eve into a discussion with him and planted the seed of doubt about Gods Word, and he exposed Eves incomplete understanding of Gods Word. It was also in Gods plan to allow Satan to tempt Eve this way. 1. Read full chapter. a. Albeit that henceforth all he ate was to be with the sweat of his face, yet still he was to have enough to eat, and he was to live on. (Spurgeon). Clarke on nor shall you touch it: Some Jewish writers state that as soon as the woman had asserted this, the serpent pushed her against the tree and said, See, you have touched it, and are still alive; you may therefore safely eat of the fruit, for surely you shall not die.. Dont touch it or God says well die! While this is better than saying nothing, what Adam didnt explain made a vulnerable place where Satan could attack. 5. There are many temptations to which being alone gives great advantage; but the communion of saints tends very much to their strength and safety. The stronger ones in a chain must expect an attack against weaker links and support them against those attacks. The heel is the part within the serpents reach. Who then can say that Adam's sin had but little harm in it? This was a sin problem and Adams wardrobe, fear or self-understanding could not be addressed until the sin problem was addressed. Heaven and hell can never be reconciled, nor light and darkness; no more can Satan and a sanctified soul. Without shedding of blood there is no remission (Hebrews 9:22). 2. On this occasion, Satan chose to indwell the body of a pre-curse serpent. i. Satan was, in his own thinking, majestic and triumphant over Jesus on the cross, but he failed. WebWhen confronted with their sin, the man and woman confess, but also attempt to shift the blame to others. Instinctively, we dont serve God or Satan; we serve ourselves (which is fine with Satan). (Genesis 3:21) God clothes Adam and Eve in the skins of animals. Take and eat will one day become verbs of salvation, but only after Jesus had lived in the world of Adams curse and surrendered to death. The serpent deceived me, and I ate: When confronted by God, Eve didnt necessarily shift the blame when she admitted the serpent deceived her and then she ate. Notice is given concerning Christ. She was not a mother at all, but as the life was to come through her by virtue of the promised seed, Adam marks his full conviction of the truth of the promise though at the time the woman had borne no children. (Spurgeon). His employments and enjoyments are imbittered to him. So the rule of love founded in paradise is replaced by struggle, tyranny and domination. (Susan T. Foh, cited in Boice). They knew that they were naked: Both Psalm 104:2 and Matthew 17:2 suggest that light can be a garment for the righteous. He sweat for us, as it had been great drops of blood. As He does kill and revive, so will you have the power to kill and revive. Prophets The principle of Galatians 3:13 is established as we consider that Jesus bore each aspect of the curse upon Adam and Eve in its totality: Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. If man had not sinned, he would always have ruled with wisdom and love; if the woman had not sinned, she would always have obeyed with humility and meekness. Historical Books iii. a. Adam called his wifes name Eve: Up to Genesis 3:20, the woman has never been called Eve. Also for Adam and his wife the LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed them. For out of it you were taken; WebGenesis 3 tells the story of paradise lost by the willfulness of human sin. i. Eve does not seem to know the name of this tree; she only calls it the tree in the midst of the garden, instead of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 2:17). Perhaps Satan made the voice supernaturally seem to come forth from the serpent, or perhaps Satan communicated this to Eve in her thoughts. The LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed them: God wanted Adam and Eve clothed, not naked. He spoke in a taunting way. c. Your desire shall be for your husband: This is true of women in a way that it is not true for men. Barnhouse explained: This verse will be understood better when it is realized that the desire of man toward his wife alone is solely by Gods grace and not by nature.. i. The Gospels GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point There is now a natural fear of Satan in the heart of man. Web19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. This does not mean God did not have a name for Eve, but we are told what the name is in Genesis 5:2: He called them Mankind. Adam bears the name of the dying body, Eve of the living soul. Because you have heeded the voice of your wife: It wasnt just as if Adam took Eves advice. Satan will often attack a chain at its weakest link, so he gets at Adam by tempting Eve. v. This is the first gospel sermon that was ever delivered upon the surface of this earth. But though Satan's subtlety may draw us into sin, yet it will not justify us in sin. He pressed upon them greatly Partly because he would by no means have them to expose themselves to the perils and insults which he was aware awaited their The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him (John 1:18); and no man has ever seen God in the Person of the Father (1 Timothy 6:16). This was not the interrogation of an angry commanding officer, but the heartfelt cry of an anguished father. To this point, death had been mentioned only as a threatened punishment for sin ( Genesis It is difficult for women in Christian lands to realize the miseries of their hundreds of millions of sisters in pagan lands, where the lot of women is little above that of cattle. Prophets ii. iv. Therefore, it is Adam and not Eve who bears the responsibility for the fall of the human race and for the introduction of death into the created order (Romans 5:12, 1 Corinthians 15:22). No condition will of itself bring content, unless the mind be brought to it. WebThe temptation from the serpent. Adam and Eve were clothed with a garment that was purchased with the life of another. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation. They must have thought, Its our turn next!. No marvel that they became a terror to themselves, and full of confusion. d. Then the man said: Notice that to this point, God has not addressed Eve at all. Pentateuch ii. Sin is failure to do what God has commanded us. His sufferings and death; pointed at in Satan's bruising his heel, that is, his human nature. They didnt proudly show off their fig-leaf outfits; they knew their own covering was completely inadequate, and they were embarrassed before God. They heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: Adam and Eve knew that when they heard the LORD coming, He would want to be with them. ii. Your desire shall be for your husband, iv. But while the heel is bruised on earth, the Head is in heaven. Pentateuch The Old Testament Rather bless him that ever he should have consecrated the thorns by wearing them for his diadem (Spurgeon). Yet man is not sentenced to eat dust as the serpent, only to eat the herb of the field. iii. WebThe temptation from the serpent. For this reason, women should take special care in which man they marry. It is the history of Sodom's ruin, and Lot's rescue from that ruin. WebGenesis chapter 3 tells the story of the fall of man through the temptation of Eve and the entrance of sin into the world. ii. If we are born naturally rebellious against God, we are also born cautious and afraid of Satan. i. So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. But to this point, she was called a female (Genesis 1:27), a helper comparable (Genesis 2:18), a woman (Genesis 2:22, 23), and a wife (Genesis 2:24, 25; 3:8). If nudity represented a higher, freer life, then God would have let Adam and Eve remain naked but He clothed them. That bruised heel is painful enough. He shall bruise your head, In all probability the reptile called the serpent was a nobler creature before the Fall than now. This curse of the earth was on his head, and wounded him full sore. It is as if a deaf person was promised to be able to hear again, but all they could hear was screaming. Under Jesus, some of the effects of the curse are relieved, and it has been the Christianizing of society that brought rights and dignity to women. ii. The Gospels Because of Adam: ii. He did not disclose his design at first, but he put a question which seemed innocent. Johannine Writings i. WebGenesis 3:19 The last part of God's curse on Adam involves the brevity of physical life. The taking was all her doing. It is the fruit of this enmity, that there is a continual warfare between grace and corruption, in the hearts of God's people. a. b. of Scripture. Sin brought pain to childbirth, and no one knew more pain than Jesus did when He, through His suffering, brought many sons to glory (, Sin brought conflict, and Jesus endured great conflict to bring our salvation (, Thorns came with sin and the fall, and Jesus endured a crown of thorns to bring our salvation (, Sin brought sweat, and Jesus sweat, as it were, great drops of blood to win our salvation (, Sin brought sorrow, and Jesus became a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief, to save us (, Sin brought death, and Jesus tasted death for everyone that we might be saved (, Barnhouse, Donald Grey "Genesis: A Devotional Exposition" Volumes 1 and 2 (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 1973), Boice, James Montgomery "Genesis: An Expositional Commentary" Volumes 1, 2, and 3 (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 1987), Ginzberg, Louis "The Legends of the Jews" Volumes 1-7 (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1968), Leupold, H.C. "Exposition of Genesis: Volumes 1 and 2" (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1976), Spurgeon, Charles Haddon "The New Park Street Pulpit" Volumes 1-6 and "The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit" Volumes 7-63 (Pasadena, Texas: Pilgrim Publications, 1990). It was a memorable discourse indeed, with Jehovah himself for the preacher, and the whole human race and the prince of darkness for the audience. (Spurgeon). We are still made in Gods image, so we want to be in the presence of God and hear His voice, while at the same time, we are afraid of Him. 1. The Lord God did not ask the serpent anything, for he knew that he was a liar, but he at once pronounced sentence upon him. (Spurgeon). Our website uses cookies to store user preferences. As with every temptation, God had made for Eve a way of escape (1 Corinthians 10:13). God commanded the serpent to slither on the ground instead of walking on legs like any other animal. By proceeding, you consent to our cookie usage. Since the text and audio content provided by BLB represent a WebBut the serpent said to the woman, You shall not surely die (Genesis 3:4) God had expressly declared to Adam, in the day that you eat of (the forbidden tree) you shall surely die.. General Epistles ii. Because you have done this, It was Eve's weakness to enter into this talk with the serpent: she might have perceived by his question, that he had no good design, and should therefore have started back. b. Few subjects are more important! The serpent deceives Eve. Satan's plan was to draw our first parents to sin, and so to separate between them and their God. WebGenesis 3:19 New International Version 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust Between you and the woman, i. The Gospels ii. Many other passages associate a serpent or a snake-like creature with Satan (such as Job 26:13 and Isaiah 51:9). GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation. It was as if God could not wait to announce His plan of salvation, to bring deliverance through the one known as the Seed of the woman. Isaiah 14 tells us Satans fall had to do with his desire to be equal to or greater than God, to set his will against Gods will. 2. See here what is commonly the folly of those that have sinned. The question was meant to express the accountability man had before God. Wisdom Literature Adam and Eve made for themselves aprons of fig-leaves, a covering too narrow for them to wrap themselves in, Isaiah 28:20. The Lamb of God has made for us a garment which covers our nakedness so that we are not afraid to stand even before the bar of God. (Spurgeon). The question was meant to lead Adam to confess his sin. We can speculate that God did not destroy it, but left it to the effects of the curse and suppose that it generally deteriorated from its original condition, blending into the surrounding geography. 3. An immaterial spirit must be invisible; and therefore he must embody himself in some way or other before he can be seen. He quoted the command wrong. His victory over Satan thereby. Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil: The idea behind this phrase is difficult to understand. Satan took Gods positive command in Genesis 2:16-17 (Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat) and rephrased it in a purely negative way: God wont let you eat of every tree.. WebGenesis 3 tells the story of paradise lost by the willfulness of human sin. f. He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel: In this, God prophesies the doom of Satan, showing that the real battle is between Satan and the Seed of the Woman. i. In Satans direct challenge, he tries to get Eve to doubt the badness of sin. (Genesis 3:4-5) Satans direct challenge to Gods Word. 1. Eve was tricked into sinning; Adam knew exactly what he was doing (1 Timothy 2:14). The friendship Eve and the serpent seemed to enjoy earlier in the chapter is finished. We simply and strongly tell him, The Lord rebuke you! (Jude 9). Beings engaged in evil designs have no other way of going, but with tricks, devices, concealments, double meanings. Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year. Then the LORD God said, Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. Web3. It was henceforward in vain for him and his to expect righteousness, life, and happiness, by the covenant of works; for the command of that covenant being broken, the curse of it is in full force: we are all undone, if we are judged by that covenant. The devil tempts them, persecutes and slays them; and so bruises the heel of Christ, who is afflicted in their afflictions. ii. By his death he gave a fatal blow to the devil's kingdom, a wound to the head of this serpent that cannot be healed. Despite that, Adam and Eve needed only a bit of prompting from a talking serpent to disobey their good Creator. She saw. And between your seed and her Seed; b. God came to them personally, addressing Adam and Eve directly. That Satan has power to enter into living bodies is clear, for he did so upon a very large scale with regard to men in the days of Christ Being compelled to have an embodiment, the master evil spirit perceived the serpent to be at that time among the most subtle of all creatures; and therefore he entered into the serpent as feeling that he would be most at home in that animal (Spurgeon). He was nailed to the cross; he hung there in thirst and fever, and darkness and desertion (Spurgeon). Uneasiness and weariness with labour are our just punishment, which we must patiently submit to, since they are less than our iniquity deserves. It has been observed that women bring forth children with more pain than just about any other creature. This was their holy of holies. Therefore, it was important to send cherubim and a flaming sword to guard the way to the tree of life. Like a servant who earnestly desires the shade, and like a hired man who eagerly looks for his wages (Job 7:1-2). Let it not lessen our sorrow for sin, that we were beguiled into it; but let it increase our self-indignation, that we should suffer ourselves to be deceived by a known cheat, and a sworn enemy, who would destroy our souls. He did a poor job of relating to his wife the word God gave him. Eve tried to become a god by rebelling against God. I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; i. Christ baffled Satan's temptations, rescued souls out of his hands. c. In the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened: Satans temptation was all the more powerful because there was truth in it. iv. iii. i. 2. The New Testament Not in the dead of night when the natural glooms of darkness might have increased the terrors of the criminal, not in the heat of the day, lest he should imagine that God come in the heat of passion; not in the early morning, as if in haste to slay, but at the close of the day, for God is long-suffering, slow to anger, and of great mercy. (Spurgeon). Fig leaves have something of a prickly quality, which would make for some pretty itchy coverings. He will always reach for victory but always fall short of it. Where the gospel has gone, the load has been lifted, and woman in Christ has become the reflection of the redeemed Church, the bride of Christ. (Barnhouse). Observe the startling question, Adam, where art thou? The curse of death shows that the result of Adams sin extended to the entire human race. 6. John 3:16, Jesus faith love), The Whole Bible No wonder our sorrows are multiplied, when our sins are so. It is good to feel guilty when you have done something wrong, and having no sense of guilt or shame is worse. i. Believe this (Spurgeon). Perhaps they felt if they left the garden, they might never see God again because it was the only place where they met Him. On your belly you shall go, The New Testament After the fall, everything looked worse. As the gospel gains ground, Satan falls. Men and women have each known sorrow throughout history, yet the unique sorrow of women is well known. The Old Testament This much was true: she had been deceived, and she did eat. Pauline Epistles See also God's care for our first parents, notwithstanding their sin. Till you return to the ground, And how admirably the satisfaction of our Lord Jesus, by his death and sufferings, answered the sentence passed on our first parents! By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.. 3. In an echo of the flood story, God destroys Sodom for the wickedness displayed earlier in the chapter. Historical Books Has God indeed said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden? His main lie to us is sin is not bad, and God is not good., iv. iii. Our good works are like monopoly money great for monopoly, but not legal tender. Even so, God continues to provide for His creation. He promises advantage from their eating this fruit. Many have speculated that Adam sinned because he didnt want Eve to be alone in the fall, and he ate of the fruit out of a romantic impulse. c. Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat? A verification email has been sent to the address you provided. Adam sinned with his eyes wide open, in open rebellion against God. Cool of the day is literally the breeze of the day. From Hebrew geography and culture, we might guess this means late afternoon or early evening. In toil you shall eat of it e. Has God indeed said: Satans first attack was leveled against the Word of God. The serpent was more cunning than any beast: Satans effectiveness is often found in His cunning, crafty ways. d. Lest you die: This may seem like a small thing to hinge the destiny of the human race and all creation on. (14,15) The punishment of mankind. a. Chapter 3. As the gospel gains ground, Satan falls. (22-24). Let those that are meanly clad, learn from hence not to complain. WebAlthough death was the fruit of Adam's sin, it was by God's grace that His curse did not fall upon Adam. There are only two religions; there is the religion of fig leaves and there is the religion of Gods perfect provision through Jesus. She could have simply run from Satan and the tree, but Eve didnt take Gods way of escape. ii. d. You will be like God, knowing good and evil: The final enticement was the most powerful because it was how Satan himself fell, wanting to be equal with God. The beasts, from whose skins they were clothed, it is supposed were slain, not for man's food, but for sacrifice, to typify Christ, the great Sacrifice. Enmity has the idea of ill will, hatred, and a mutual antagonism. See her what dishonour and trouble sin is; it makes mischief wherever it gets in, and destroys all comfort. i. Leupold on walking in the garden in the cool of the day: The almost casual way in which this is remarked indicates that this did not occur for the first time just then There is extreme likelihood that the Almighty assumed some form analogous to the human form which was made in His image.. Are not his days also like the days of a hired man? But instead of acknowledging the sin in its full extent, and taking shame to themselves, Adam and Eve excuse the sin, and lay the shame and blame on others. Charles Spurgeon thought the sense was, in the wind of the evening, when the evening breeze was blowing through the garden. I will put enmity between you and the woman: In addition, there is a natural aversion between mankind and serpents, especially on the part of women. Sin brought sorrow into the world; that made the world a vale of tears. WebGenesis 3. And you shall bruise His heel.. And take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever: In mercy, God protected Adam and Eve from the horrible fate of having to live forever as sinners by preventing them from eating from the tree of life. Adam and Eve must have been terrified as this once-beautiful creature called a serpent was transformed into the creeping, slithering, hissing snake we know today. Historical Books g. He shall bruise your head: For God to see the defeat of Satan at Satans first flush of victory shows God knew what He was doing all along. The fruit probably was pleasant to the eyes, though that shouldnt mean much. The New Testament i. We can see the precise truth of Pauls statement in 1 Timothy 2:14, that Eve was deceived when she sinned. And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. you shall eat bread, Until you return to the ground, from which you were taken; For you are dust, and to dust you shall return. (1-5) Adam and Eve transgress the Divine command, and fall into sin and misery. b. Deceived me: The problem comes when we fail to see that being deceived is sin in itself. The representation of Satan as a serpent makes the idea of Moses saving Israel by lifting up a bronze serpent all the more provocative (Numbers 21:8-9), especially when Jesus identifies Himself with that very serpent (John 3:14). Let us, therefore, always think well of God as the best good, and think ill of sin as the worst evil: thus let us resist the devil, and he will flee from us. It is an ill sign with men when they cannot be brought frankly to acknowledge their wrong-doing. (Spurgeon), And the LORD God said to the woman, What is this you have done? The woman said, The serpent deceived me, and I ate..