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Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 3:12

I have eaten, not by my own choice and inclination, but by the persuasion of this woman, whom thou gavest to be with me, as a meet help, a faithful friend, and constant companion, supposing that it was not good for me to be alone, which the event shows would have been much better for me. Thus Adam excuseth himself, and chargeth God foolishly with his sin. I did eat, out of complacency to her, not from any evil design against thee. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Genesis 3:8-12

MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Genesis 3:8-12THE SAD EFFECTS OF YIELDING TO TEMPTATIONI. That yielding to temptation is generally followed by a sad consciousness of physical destitution. “And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig-leaves together and made themselves aprons” (Genesis 3:7). Many a man has thought to enrich himself by yielding to the temptations of Satan, he has expected not merely to gain knowledge, but also social influence,... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 3:1-24

Genesis 3:0 Consider: (1) some of the consequences, and (2) some of the corroborative proofs of the fall. I. Beside and behind the outward consequences, there were inward results far more terrible. A disease had appeared on earth of the most frightful and inveterate kind. This disease was (1) a moral disease. The grand disease of sin combines all the evil qualities of bodily distempers in a figurative yet real form, and turns not the body, but the soul, into a mass of malady. (2) The disease is... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 3:12

Genesis 3:12 I. Adam, we find, was not content to be in the image of God. He and his wife wanted to be as gods, knowing good and evil. He wanted to be independent, and show that he knew what was good for him: he ate the fruit which he was forbidden to eat, partly because it was fair and well-tasted, but still more to show his own independence. When he heard the voice of the Lord, when he was called out, and forced to answer for himself, he began to make pitiful excuses. He had not a word to say... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Genesis 3:11-13

DISCOURSE: 6EXCUSES MADE BY OUR FIRST PARENTS, AFTER THEIR FALLGenesis 3:11-13. Hast thou eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.THE immediate effects of sin are not easily discovered by us at this time: for if we look for them in... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Genesis 3:1-24

Chapter 3Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden ( Genesis 3:1 )?Now the serpent was not always what it is today. It didn't always writhe along on the ground. That is a part of the result of the curse-living in the dust, eating the dust. What its mode of propelling itself was we really don't know. Whether or not it was in erect position, whether or not it... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 3:1-24

Genesis 3:1. The serpent. The rabbins and the christian doctors have largely sported their opinions here. St. Cyril contends that Satan assumed the figure of the serpent, and so talked with the woman, while the letter of the text indicates that he spake in the serpent, as the angel spake in Balaam’s ass. The main point here is, the origin of evil, which occasioned the ruin and miseries of man. These most eventful and interesting occurrences were, no doubt, delivered by Adam to Methuselah,... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 3:9-12

Genesis 3:9-12Where art thou?--God’s questionI. The speaker is God; the person spoken to is the representative of us all. II. The call is--1. Individual. 2. Universal. III. God calls in three ways. 1. In conscience. 2. In providence. 3. In revelation. IV. His call is--1. To attention. 2. To recognition of God’s being. 3. To reflection on our own place and position. V. It is a call which each must answer for himself, and which each ought to answer without delay. (Dean Vaughan.)An important... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 3:12

Gen 3:12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest [to be] with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. Ver. 12. The woman whom thou gavest. ] Here he rejects the fault upon the woman, and, through her, upon God, who gave her to be with him, or before him; or such another as himself (with reference to that Kenegdo ,) Gen 2:20 or a help meet for him. This she might have been to him, had he been (as he ought to her) a manly guide in the way to heaven. He should have rebuked her, as Job... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Genesis 3:12

Genesis 2:18, Genesis 2:20, Genesis 2:22, Exodus 32:21-Jeremiah :, 1 Samuel 15:20-Jeremiah :, Job 31:33, Proverbs 19:3, Proverbs 28:13, Luke 10:29, Romans 10:3, James 1:13-Ezra : Reciprocal: Genesis 3:6 - and he did eat Genesis 16:2 - hearkened Exodus 32:24 - So they Judges 2:2 - why have 1 Samuel 15:13 - I have performed 1 Samuel 15:15 - for 1 Samuel 15:24 - obeyed 2 Samuel 14:32 - if there 2 Samuel 19:9 - strife Job 2:9 - his wife Jeremiah 2:23 - How canst Jeremiah 44:19 - without 1 Timothy... read more

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