Genesis 3:15-16 ESV

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 3:14-15

The doom of Satan and the hope of man. I. THE DOOM OF DEGRADATION ( Genesis 3:14 ). II. THE DOOM OF HOSTILITY ( Genesis 3:15 ). Three stages:— 1. The enmity. 2. The conflict. 3. The victory. Lessons : — 1. See the wondrous mercy of God in proclaiming from the first day of sin, and putting into the forefront, a purpose of salvation. 2. Have we recognized it to the overcoming of the devil?— W . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 3:15

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman . Referring— 1. To the fixed and inveterate antipathy between the serpent and the human race (Bush, Lange); to that alone (Knobel). 2. To the antagonism henceforth to be established between the tempter and mankind (Murphy); to that alone (Calvin, Bonar, Wordsworth, Macdonald). And between thy seed and her seed . Here the curse manifestly outgrows the literal serpent, and refers almost exclusively to the invisible tempter. The... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 3:16

Unto the woman he said. Passing judgment on her first who had sinned first, but cursing neither her nor her husband, as "being candidates for restoration" (Tertullian). The sentence pronounced on Eve was twofold. I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception . A hendiadys for "the sorrow of thy conception" (Gesenius, Bush), though this is not necessary. The womanly and wifely sorrow of Eve was to be intensified, and in particular the pains of parturition were to be multiplied... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Genesis 3:8-21

- XVI. The Judgment15. שׁוּף shûp “bruise, wound.” τηρεῖν (=τερεῖν?) tērein ἐκτρίβειν ektribein Job 9:17, καταπατεῖν katapatein Psalms 139:11, συντρίβειν suntribein Romans 16:20.16. תשׁוּקה teshûqâh “desire, inclination.” αποστροφή apostrofee, ἐπιστροφή epistrophē Song of Solomon 7:11.20. חוּה chavâh Eve, “the living, life, life-place, or village.”This passage contains the examination of the transgressors, Genesis 3:8-13; the sentence pronounced upon each, Genesis 3:14-19; and... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 3:15

Genesis 3:15. I will put enmity, &c. The whole race of serpents are, of all creatures, the most disagreeable and terrible to mankind, and especially to women: but the devil, who seduced the woman, and his angels, are here meant, who are hated and dreaded by all men, even by those that serve them, but more especially by good men. And between thy seed All carnal and wicked men, who, in reference to this text, are called the children and seed of Satan; and her seed That is, her... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 3:16

Genesis 3:16. We have here the sentence passed on the woman: she is condemned to a state of sorrow and subjection: proper punishments of a sin in which she had gratified her pleasure and her pride. I will greatly multiply thy sorrow In divers pains and infirmities peculiar to thy sex; and thy conception Thou shalt have many, and those oft-times fruitless conceptions and abortive births. In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children With more pain than any other creatures undergo in... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Genesis 3:1-24

Human disobedience (3:1-24)Since human beings were made in God’s image, and since God was unlimited, the first human couple soon showed that they too wanted to be unlimited. They had to remember, however, that they were not God; they were only creatures made in the image of God. Just as the image of the moon on the water could not exist independently of the moon, so they could not exist independently of God. Their relationship with God contained an element of dependence, or limitation, and... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 3:15

it. i.e. Christ. The corruption of this in the Vulgate into "she" lies at the root of Mariolatry: the verb in singular. Masculine shows that zer'a (seed) is here to be taken in singular, with Septuagint, i.e. Christ ; see note on Genesis 17:7 ; Genesis 21:12 , and Galatians 1:3 , Galatians 1:16 . head . . . heel. See App-19 . No more literal than 1 Corinthians 11:8 , or Psalms 41:9 , and John 13:18 . They denote the temporary sufferings of the Seed, and the complete destruction of Satan and... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 3:16

greatly multiply. Hebrew "multiplying I will multiply". Figure of speech Polyptoton . Emph. Preserved in word "greatly". Compare Genesis 3:4 , and see note on Genesis 26:28 . in sorrow. Compare 1 Timothy 2:14 , 1 Timothy 2:15 . children. Hebrew = sons; but daughters included by context. to = subject to. Childbearing was not brought into this for eating an apple. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 3:15

"And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: he shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."Many scholars cannot recognize this as the great Protoevangelium of the O.T., which of course, it surely is. Their blindness is due to their failure to recognize that the key to understanding the O.T. is Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 3:15,16). The terminology of this verse is such that it cannot apply to anything in heaven or upon earth except the long... read more