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CHAPTER 3 1N ow the serpent w as more subtle than any beast of the field, w hich the Lord God had made: (As Satan can changed himself into an Angel of light, so he abused the wisdom of the serpent to deceive man) and he said to the w oman, Y ea, 1
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hath God indeed said, ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? (God suffered Satan to make the serpent his instrument and to speak in him) 2And the w oman said unto the serpent, W e may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden. 3But of the fruit of CHAPTER 3
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the tree w hich is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Y e shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. 4Then the serpent said to the w oman, Y e shall not die at all, (This is Satan’ s chiefest subtlety, to cause us not to fear God’ s threats)(Hebrew, CHAPTER 3
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die the death) *2 Corinthians 11:33 But I fear lest as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupt from the simplicity that is in Christ) 5But God doth know that w hen ye shall eat thereof, your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, CHAPTER 3
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know ing good and evil. (As if he should say, God does not forbid you to eat of the fruit, save (except) that he knows that if (you do eat) ye should eat thereof, ye should be like to him) 6So the w oman (seeing that the tree was good for meat, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired, to get knowledge) CHAPTER 3
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took of the fruit thereof, and did eat *1 Timothy 2:14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived, and was in the transgression), and gave also to her husband w ith her, and he did eat (The woman doubted God’ s threats and so she yielded to Satan)(Not so much to please his CHAPTER 3
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wife, as moved by ambition by her persuasion). 7Then the eyes of them both w ere opened, and they knew that they w ere naked (They began to feel their misery, but they sought not to God for remedy. Shame, guilt), and they sew ed fig tree leaves together, and made CHAPTER 3
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themselves breeches (Hebrew, things to gird about them to hide their privities (Or something like an apron or a wrap-around to help cover up). 8Afterw ard they heard the voice of the Lord God w alking in the garden in the cool of the day (Or wind), and the man and his CHAPTER 3
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w ife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God (The sinful conscience fears God’ s presence) among the trees of the garden. 9But the Lord God called to the man, and said unto him, W here art thou? 10W ho said, I heard thy voice in CHAPTER 3
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the garden and w as afraid: because I w as naked (His hypocrisy appears in that he hid the cause of his nakedness, which was the transgression of Gods commandment), therefore I hid myself. 11And he said, W ho told thee that thou w ast naked? Hast thou eaten of CHAPTER 3
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the tree w hereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? 12Then the man said, The w oman w hich thou gavest to be w ith me (His wickedness and lack of true repentance appeares in this that he burdened God with his fault, because he had given him a wife), CHAPTER 3
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she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. 13And the Lord God said to the w oman, W hy hast thou done this? And the w oman said, The serpent beguiled me (Instead of confessing her sin, she increased it by accusing the serpent), and I did eat. 14Then the Lord CHAPTER 3
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God said to the serpent (He asked the reason of Adam and his wife, because he would bring them to repentance, but he Did not ask the serpent, because he would show him no mercy), Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field: CHAPTER 3
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upon thy belly shalt thou go (As a vile and contemptible beast) *Isaiah 65:25 and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life. 15I w ill also put enmity (worst kind of hatred) betw een thee (He chiefy means Satan, by whose motion and craftly serpent deceived the woman) and the w oman, CHAPTER 3
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and betw een thy seed and her seed. He shall break thine head (That is, the power of sin and death), and thou shalt bruise his heel (Satan shall sting Christ and his members, but not overpower them). 16Unto the w oman he said, I w ill greatly increase thy CHAPTER 3
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sorrow s (The Lord comforted Adam by the promise of the blessed seed, and also punished the body for the sin which the soul should have been punished for; that the spirit having conceived hope of forgiveness, might live by faith), and thy conceptions. In sorrow shalt thou bring forth CHAPTER 3
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children, and thy desire shall be subject to thine husband, and he shall rule over thee. *1 Corinthians 14:34 Let your women keep silence in the Churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak: but they ought to be subject, as also the Law saith 17Also to Adam he said, CHAPTER 3
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Because thou hast obeyed the voice of thy w ife, and hast eaten of the tree, (whereof I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it) cursed is the earth for thy sake: in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. (The transgression of God's CHAPTER 3
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commandment was the cause that both mankind and all other creatures were subject to the curse) 18Thorns also and thistles (These are not the natural fruits of the earth, but proceed of the corruption of sin, or it could mean that it would be THAT MUCH HARDER to work for your grain) CHAPTER 3
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shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herb of the field. 19I n the sw eat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth: for out of it w ast thou taken, because thou art dust, and to dust shalt thou return. 20And (the man CHAPTER 3
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called his wife’ s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living) 21Unto Adam also and to his w ife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them. 22And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil. And CHAPTER 3
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now lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever (By this decision he reproaches Adam’ s misery, whereas he was fallen by ambition. Adam deprived of life, lost also the sign thereof) 23Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the CHAPTER 3
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garden of Eden, to till the earth, w hence he w as taken. 24Thus he cast out the man, and at the East side of the garden of Eden he set the Cherubims, and the blade of a sw ord shaken, to keep the w ay of the tree of life. CHAPTER 3