Genesis 3:22 KJV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 3:22-24

Sentence being passed upon the offenders, we have here execution, in part, done upon them immediately. Observe here, I. How they were justly disgraced and shamed before God and the holy angels, by the ironical upbraiding of them with the issue of their enterprise: ?Behold, the man has become as one of us, to know good and evil! A goodly god he makes! Does he not? See what he has got, what preferments, what advantages, by eating forbidden fruit!? This was said to awaken and humble them, and to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 3:22

And the Lord God said ,.... The Word of the Lord God, as the Jerusalem Targum; not to the ministering angels, as the Targum of Jonathan but within himself, or to the other two divine Persons: behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil ; which is generally understood as an irony or sarcasm at man's deception by Satan, who promised man, and he expected to be as gods, knowing good and evil; behold the man, see how much like a god he looks, with his coat of skin upon his... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 3:22

Behold, the man is become as one of us - On all hands this text is allowed to be difficult, and the difficulty is increased by our translation, which is opposed to the original Hebrew and the most authentic versions. The Hebrew has היה hayah , which is the third person preterite tense, and signifies was, not is. The Samaritan text, the Samaritan version, the Syriac, and the Septuagint, have the same tense. These lead us to a very different sense, and indicate that there is an ellipsis of... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 3:22

Verse 22 22.Behold, the man is become as one of us (214) An ironical reproof, by which God would not only prick the heart of man, but pierce it through and through. He does not, however, cruelly triumph over the miserable and afflicted; but, according to the necessity of the disease, applies a more violent remedy. For, though Adam was confounded and astonished at his calamity, he yet did not so deeply reflect on its cause as to become weary of his pride, that he might learn to embrace true... 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 3:20-24

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 3:22

And the Lord God said . Verba insultantis ; ironica reprobatio (Calvin). But "irony at the expense of a wretched, tempted soul might well befit Satan, but not the Lord" (Delitzsch), and is altogether inconsistent with the footing of grace on which man was placed immediately upon his fall. Behold, the man is become as one of us. Not the angels (Kalisch), but the Divine Persons (cf. Genesis 1:26 ). It is scarcely likely that Jehovah alludes to the words of the tempter ( Genesis 3:5 ... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Genesis 3:22-24

- XVII. The Execution24. כרוּב kerûb ברך in Aramaic: “carve, plow”; Persian: “grip, grasp.” This word occurs about eighty-seven times in the Hebrew scriptures; in sixty of which it refers to carved or embroidered figures; in twenty-two to the living being in the vision of Ezekiel Ezekiel 10:0; in two figuratively to the king of Tyre Ezekiel 28:14, Ezekiel 28:16; in two to a being on which the Lord is poetically described as riding 2 Samuel 22:11; Psalms 18:11; and in the present passage... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 3:22

Genesis 3:22. The Lord God said In his own eternal mind: Behold, the man is become as one of us See what he has got, what advantages, by eating forbidden fruit! This is said to humble them, and to bring them to a sense of their sin and folly, that, seeing themselves thus wretchedly deceived by following the devil’s counsel, they might henceforth pursue the happiness God offered, in the way he prescribed. Here is another evident proof of a plurality of persons or subsistences in the... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Genesis 3:1-24

Human disobedience (3:1-24)Since human beings were made in God’s image, and since God was unlimited, the first human couple soon showed that they too wanted to be unlimited. They had to remember, however, that they were not God; they were only creatures made in the image of God. Just as the image of the moon on the water could not exist independently of the moon, so they could not exist independently of God. Their relationship with God contained an element of dependence, or limitation, and... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 3:22-24

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 3:22

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 3:22

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 3:22

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 3:9-24

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 3:20-24

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 3:22

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Genesis 3:22-24

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 3:22

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Genesis 3:1-24

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