Genesis 3:4

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 3:4-5

‘And the snake said to the woman, “You shall not surely die, for God knows that in the day you eat of it then your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God knowing good and evil”.’ The snake knows he has won. He now drops his mask. He no longer prevaricates but blatantly and with stress reveals his true nature. No ordinary snake could be seen as speaking like this, for he is forcefully claiming to know better than God. The reader has his suspicions confirmed that something dreadfully... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 3:1-24

Genesis 3:1-Jeremiah : . Among the animals formed by Yahweh, in His first attempt to provide man with a companion, was the serpent; at that time either a quadruped or holding itself erect. It was eminent among its fellows for cleverness. In antiquity serpents were often regarded as mysteriously gifted with wisdom or cunning, sometimes as good but more often as evil. It is a mistake to think of it here as an incarnation of the devil; the ability to speak and reason is quite commonly... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 3:4

It is not so certain as you imagine, that you shall die. God did say so indeed for your terror, and to keep you in awe; or, he had some mystical meaning in those words; but do not entertain such hard and unworthy thoughts of that God who is infinitely kind and gracious, that he will, for such a trifle as the eating of a little fruit, undo you and all your posterity, and so suddenly destroy the most excellent work of his own hands. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Genesis 3:1-7

MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Genesis 3:1-7THE FIRST GREAT TEMPTATIONIt is well for the military general to study the plan and the history of great battles that have been fought in the past, in order that he may learn how best to order and arrange his troops in the event of war. So human life is a great moral campaign. The battle-field is the soul of man. The conflicting powers are Satan and humanity, good and evil. In the history of the first great temptation of our first parents we have a... 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 3:4

Genesis 3:4 I. There are many things against which God has uttered His voice in every man's heart; in which, even independently of written revelation, He has not left Himself without witness. He who lives in concealed or open sin knows full well that God hath said he shall surely die. But in the moment of temptation the certainty of ruin is met by a counter assertion of the tempter, "Thou shalt not surely die": "Do the act and cast the consequences to the winds." We have a notable instance of... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Genesis 3:4

DISCOURSE: 4THE SERPENT BEGUILING EVEGenesis 3:4. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die.IN reference to the fact before us, St. Paul says, “The serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty.” And great is the subtilty which appears throughout the whole of his conduct on this occasion. He took an opportunity of addressing himself to Eve when she was alone, that so she might become an easier victim to his wiles. He insinuated his temptation first in a way of inquiry only; “Hath... 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 3:1-6

Genesis 3:1-6Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the fieldThe first great temptationI.THAT THE HUMAN SOUL IS FREQUENTLY TEMPTED BY A DIRE FOE OF UNUSUAL SUBTLETY. 1. The tempter of human souls is subtle. 2. Malignant. 3. Courageous. II. THAT THE TEMPTER SEERS TO ENGAGE THE HUMAN SOUL IN CONVERSATION AND CONTROVERSY. 1. He seeks to hold controversy with human souls, that he may render them impatient of the moral restrictions of life. 2. That he may insidiously awaken within them... read more

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 3:4-5

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 3:1-24

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 3:4

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Genesis 3:1-7

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 3:4

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Genesis 3:4

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Genesis 3:1-24

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

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 3:1-6

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