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E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 2:25

naked. Hebrew. 'arum, a Homonym. The same spelling as word rendered "subtil" in Genesis 3:1 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 2:21-22

"And Jehovah God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh thereof: and the rib, which Jehovah God had taken from the man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man."The mystery hidden before all times is inherently a part of God's revelation here. The sleep coming upon Adam was a prophecy of the death of Christ, the God-Man, on Calvary; and just as the wife of Adam I was taken from his side during that sleep, so that Church... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 2:23

"And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."Our English word "woman" is derived from an Anglo-Saxon term, "womb-man," meaning the man with the womb. The relation between the terms man and woman is evident in many languages. In Hebrew the words are [~'iysh] and [~'ishah].[30] read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 2:24

"Therefore shall man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh."This verse was quoted by Christ and designated the "Word of God" in Matthew 19:5,6. The prophetic power of Adam is inherent in such a declaration in the given circumstances. Christ used this verse as a condemnation of divorce, as did also the prophet Malachi (Malachi 2:15), as teaching the indissoluble nature of marriage and the condemnation of polygamy. Here again there is an... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 2:25

"And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed."This is a glimpse of the primeval innocence that belonged to man before the entrance of sin into His Paradise. There is also a comment upon the kind of climate in which the garden of Eden was situated. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 2:23

Genesis 2:23. Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, &c.— Adam here begins to be used as a proper name; not as the general name of man. The several genera of beasts and birds had already passed before Adam, to which he gave names expressive of their respective natures and properties: but among all these, there was not כנגדו (kenegdo) his counter-part found: but when the woman was brought in her turn to pass in review, he said הפעם זאת (zoth hapaam) this turn, this which passes now in... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 2:24

Genesis 2:24. Therefore shall a man, &c.— It is evident, that Adam, before he expressed these words, had been instructed by God in the nature of that institution to which these words refer, and the nature of which they so aptly and fully express; teaching to us the close union of the marriage-state; an union nearer and closer than that of any other relation; a state in which one only was formed for one. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 2:25

Genesis 2:25. And they were both naked—and not ashamed— "Shame," says Mr. Locke, "is an uneasiness of the mind upon the thought of having done something which is indecent, or which will lessen the valued esteem which others have for us." It was impossible, therefore, that our first parents, in their state of perfection, could have known or felt any thing of the passion of shame. Like little children, unconscious of shame, their nakedness gave them no occasion of uneasiness. Mr. Saurin observes,... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Genesis 2:24

24. one flesh—The human pair differed from all other pairs, that by peculiar formation of Eve, they were one. And this passage is appealed to by our Lord as the divine institution of marriage (Matthew 19:4; Matthew 19:5; Ephesians 5:28). Thus Adam appears as a creature formed after the image of God—showing his knowledge by giving names to the animals, his righteousness by his approval of the marriage relation, and his holiness by his principles and feelings, and finding gratification in the... read more

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