Genesis 3:20-4:16

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Genesis 3:13-21

MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Genesis 3:13-21THE GENERAL RESULTS OF THE FALL OF OUR FIRST PARENTSI. The result of the fall of our first parents is an eternal enmity between Satan and humanity. “And the Lord God said unto the serpent, because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field: upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life; and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her... 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

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Genesis 3:20

Eve i.e. living, or life-giver. 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 3:13-21

Genesis 3:13-21What is this that thou hast done?--The general results of the FallI. ETERNAL ENMITY BETWEEN SATAN AND HUMANITY (Genesis 3:14). 1. This curse was uttered in reference to Satan. 2. This address is different from that made to Adam and Eve. 3. There was to commence a severe enmity and conflict between Satan and the human race. (1) This enmity has existed from the early ages of the world’s history.(2) This enmity is seeking the destruction of the higher interests of man. (3) This... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 3:20

Genesis 3:20Adam called his wife’s name liveMan’s undying hopeConsider that aspect of this terrible calamity which is afforded us in the action of Adam.It is clear that he understood what was involved in the act he had just committed. Scarcely are the words uttered by God, “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread,” etc., than he seems to turn to his wife and say, “Eve, the mother, the living one; because she is mother of all living.” There is no defiance here. It is not because the man... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 3:20

Gen 3:20 And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. Ver. 20. And Adam called his wife’s name Eve.] That is, Life, or Living. Not, per antiphrasim, as some would have it; much less out of pride and stomach, in contempt of the divine sentence denounced against them both, that they should surely die, as Rupertus would have it: but because she was to be mother of all living, whether a natural or a spiritual life; and likewise for a testimony of his faith in, and... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Genesis 3:20

Adam: Genesis 2:20, Genesis 2:23, Genesis 5:29, Genesis 16:11, Genesis 29:32-Habakkuk :, Genesis 35:18, Exodus 2:10, 1 Samuel 1:20, Matthew 1:21, Matthew 1:23 Eve: Heb. Chavah; that is, living of: Acts 17:26 read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Genesis 3:20

And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.God having named the man, and called him Adam, which signifies red earth, he in farther token of dominion named the woman, and called her Eve - That is, life. Adam bears the name of the dying body, Eve of the living soul. The reason of the name is here given, some think by Moses the historian, others by Adam himself, because she was - That is, was to be the mother of all living. He had called her Isha, woman, before,... read more

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