Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Genesis 3:1-15
Genesis HOW SIN CAME IN Gen_3:1 - Gen_3:15 . It is no part of my purpose to enter on the critical questions connected with the story of ‘the fall.’ Whether it is a legend, purified and elevated, or not, is of less consequence than what is its moral and religious significance, and that significance is unaffected by the answer to the former question. The story presupposes that primitive man was in a state of ignorant innocence, not of intellectual or moral perfection, and it tells how that... read more
Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Genesis 3:1-24
SECOND PARTTHE GENESIS OF THE WORLD-HISTORY, OF THE TRIAL, OF THE SIN OF MAN, OF THE JUDGMENT, OF DEATH, OF THE SALVATION-TRIUMPH, OF THE CONTRAST BETWEEN A DIVINE AND A WORLDLY TENDENCY IN HUMANITY, LASTLY OF THE UNIVERSAL CORRUPTIONFIRST SECTIONThe Lost Paradise. Genesis 3:1-24.A.—The Temptation.Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent1 was more subtle [properly: alone subtle among all beasts] than all the beasts of the field which the Lord God had made; and he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye... read more