Genesis 3:19-21 KJV

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 3:20

Verse 20 20.And Adam called, etc. There are two ways in which this may be read. The former, in the pluperfect tense, ‘Adam had called.’ If we follow this reading, the sense of Moses will be, that Adam had been greatly deceived, in promising life to himself and to his posterity, from a wife, whom he afterwards found by experience to be the introducer of death. And Moses (as we have seen) is accustomed, without preserving the order of the history, to subjoin afterwards things which had been prior... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 3:21

Verse 21 21.Unto Adam also, and to his wife, did the Lord God make, etc. Moses here, in a homely style, declares that the Lord had undertaken the labor of making garments of skins for Adam and his wife. It is not indeed proper so to understand his words, as if God had been a furrier, or a servant to sew clothes. Now, it is not credible that skins should have been presented to them by chance; but, since animals had before been destined for their use, being now impelled by a new necessity, they... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 3:8-19

The first judgment scene. I. THE FLIGHT Or THE CRIMINALS . 1. It is the instinct of sinful men to flee from God . "Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God" ( Genesis 3:8 ). So "Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord" ( Jonah 1:3 ). 2. It is God ' s habit to pursue transgressors . As he pursued Adam and Eve in the garden by his voice (verse 9), and Jonah on the deep by a wind ( Jonah 1:4 ), and David by his... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 3:9-24

The word of God in the moral chaos. These verses bring before us very distinctly the elements of man's sinful state, and of the redemptive dispensation of God which came out of it by the action of his brooding Spirit of life upon the chaos. I. THE WORD OF GOD ADDRESSED TO THE PERSONAL CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW WORLD . "The Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? " Before that direct intercourse between the Spirit of God and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 3:19

In the sweat of thy face (so called, as having there its source and being there visible) shalt thou eat bread . I .e. all food. " To eat bread" is to possess the means of sustaining life ( Ecclesiastes 5:16 ; Amos 7:12 ). Till thou return unto the ground (the mortality-of man is thus assumed as certain); for out of it thou wast taken. Not declaring the reason of man's dissolution, as if it were involved in his original material constitution, but reminding him that in... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 3:20

Arraigned, convicted, judged, the guilty but pardoned pair prepare to leave their garden home—the woman to begin her experience of sorrow, dependence, and subjection; the man to enter upon his life career of hardship and toil, and both to meet their doom of certain, though it might be of long-delayed, death. The impression made upon their hearts by the Divine Clemency, though not directly stated by the historian, may be inferred from what is next recorded as having happened within the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 3:20-24

First fruits of the promise. I. FAITH ( Genesis 3:20 ). The special significance of Adam's renaming his wife at this particular juncture in his history is best discerned when the action is regarded as the response of his faith to the antecedent promise of the woman's seed. 1. It is the place of faith to succeed, and not to precede, the promise. Faith being, in its simplest conception, belief in a testimony, the testimony must ever take precedence of the faith. "In whom ye also... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 3:21

Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats ( cathnoth , from cathan , to cover; cf. χιτω ì ν ; Sanscrit, katam ; English, cotton ) of skin ( or , the skin of a man, from ur , to be naked, hence a hide). Neither their bodies (Origen), nor garments of the bark of trees (Gregory Nazianzen), nor miraculously-fashioned apparel (Grotius), nor clothing made from the serpent's skin ( R . Jonathan), but tunics prepared from the skins of animals,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 3:21

Covering. God's chief promises generally accompanied by visible signs or symbolical acts; e.g; bow in the cloud, furnace and lamp ( Genesis 15:17 ), passover, &c.; The time here spoken of specially called for such a sign. Man had fallen; a Deliverer was promised; it was the beginning of a state of grace for sinners. Notice four facts:— 1. Man unfallen required no covering. 2. Man fallen became conscious of need, especially towards God. 3. He attempted himself to provide... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Genesis 3:8-21

- XVI. The Judgment15. שׁוּף shûp “bruise, wound.” τηρεῖν (=τερεῖν?) tērein ἐκτρίβειν ektribein Job 9:17, καταπατεῖν katapatein Psalms 139:11, συντρίβειν suntribein Romans 16:20.16. תשׁוּקה teshûqâh “desire, inclination.” αποστροφή apostrofee, ἐπιστροφή epistrophē Song of Solomon 7:11.20. חוּה chavâh Eve, “the living, life, life-place, or village.”This passage contains the examination of the transgressors, Genesis 3:8-13; the sentence pronounced upon each, Genesis 3:14-19; and... read more

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 3:20

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 3:21

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 3:8-19

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 3:9-24

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 3:19

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 3:20

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 3:20-24

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 3:21

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 3:21

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Genesis 3:8-21

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