F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Genesis 2:18-25
Man and Woman, Temptation Genesis 2:18-25 ; Genesis 3:1-8 Human love is God’s best gift to man. Without it even Eden would not be Paradise. That Adam was able to name the animals, affixing a title suggested by some peculiarity or characteristic, indicated his royal supremacy, and, in so far as we live in God, that supremacy is restored. See Daniel 6:22 ; Mark 1:13 . But what is power without love, or a throne without a consort? Eve was, therefore, given to crown his bliss; taken from his... read more
Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Genesis 2:4-25
SECOND SECTIONMan—Paradise—the Paradisaical Pair and the Paradisaical Institutions,—Theocratic—Jehovistic. Genesis 2:4-25.A.—The Earth waiting for Man.4These are the generations [genealogies]14 of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day [here the six days are one day] that the Lord God [not God Jehovah, much less God the Eternal. Israel’s God as God of all the world] made the earth and the heavens [the theocratic heavens are completed from the earth], 5And every plant of... read more