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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 3:1

Catastrophe In The Garden (3:1-24). Genesis 3:1 a ‘Now the snake was wiser than any creature that the Lord God had made.’ The word for snake always refers to ordinary snakes in the Old Testament, with the exception of Isaiah 27:1 and possibly Amos 9:3. However these exceptions do show that the Israelites were familiar with the myths of surrounding peoples relating to ‘snakes’ and ‘serpents’, which were often looked on as semi-divine creatures involved in evil, although also often in good. It... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 3:1-24

Man’s Establishment and Fall (Genesis 2:4 to Genesis 3:24 ) TABLET II. Genesis 2:0 and Genesis 3:0 form a unit distinguished by the fact that God is called Yahweh Elohim (Lord God), a usage repeated, and constantly used, all the way through (apart from in the conversation between Eve and the serpent), a phrase which occurs elsewhere in the Pentateuch only once, in Exodus 9:30 where it is connected with the thought that the earth is Yahweh’s. It thus connects with creation. This distinctive... 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 3:1

The serpent; or rather, this or that serpent; for here is an emphatical article, of which more by and by. The serpent's eminent subtlety is noted both in sacred Scripture, Genesis 49:17; Psalms 58:5; Matthew 10:16; 2 Corinthians 11:3, and by heathen authors, whereof these instances are given; that when it is assaulted, it secures its head; that it stops its ear at the charmer's voice; and the like. If it be yet said that some beasts are more subtle, and therefore this is not true; it may be... 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

Genesis 3:1 I. Satan's temptations begin by laying a doubt at the root. He questions; he unsettles. He does not assert error; he does not contradict truth; but he confounds both. He makes his first entries, not by violent attack, but by secret sapping; he endeavours to confuse and cloud the mind which he is afterwards going to kill. II. The particular character of these troublesome and wicked questionings of the mind varies according to the state and temperament and character of each... 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 3:1

The serpent The serpent, in his Edenic form, is not to be thought of as a writhing reptile. That is the effect of the curse Genesis 3:14. The creature which lent itself to Satan may well have been the most beautiful as was the most "subtle" of creatures less than man. Traces of that beauty remain despite the curse. Every movement of a serpent is graceful, and many species are beautifully coloured. In the serpent, Satan first appeared as "an angel of light" 2 Corinthians 11:14. 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