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Ezekiel 18:2
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fathers...eaten sour grapes,...children's teeth...set on edge--Their unbelieving calumnies on God's justice had become so common as to have assumed a proverbial form. The sin of Adam in eating the...
Genesis 3:1 - 5
Matthew Henry Concise
Satan assaulted our first parents, to draw them to sin, and the temptation proved fatal to them. The tempter was the devil, in the shape and likeness of a serpent. Satan's plan was to draw our...
Genesis 3:6 - 8
Matthew Henry Concise
Observe the steps of the transgression: not steps upward, but downward toward the pit. 1. She saw. A great deal of sin comes in at the eye. Let us not look on that which we are in danger of...
Ecclesiastes 7:29
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The "only" way of accounting for the scarcity of even comparatively upright men and women is that, whereas God made man upright, they (men) have, &c. The only account to be "found" of the origin of...
Genesis 3:20
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Adam called his wife's name Eve--probably in reference to her being a mother of the promised Saviour, as well as of all mankind.
Genesis 3:1
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the serpent--The fall of man was effected by the seductions of a serpent. That it was a real serpent is evident from the plain and artless style of the history and from the many allusions made to...
Genesis 3:9 - 13
Matthew Henry Concise
Observe the startling question, Adam, where art thou? Those who by sin go astray from God, should seriously consider where they are; they are afar off from all good, in the midst of their...
1 Timothy 2:13
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For--reason of the precept; the original order of creation. Adam...first--before Eve, who was created for him (1Co 11:8, 9).
Genesis 3:20 - 21
Matthew Henry Concise
God named the man, and called him Adam, which signifies red earth; Adam named the woman, and called her Eve, that is, life. Adam bears the name of the dying body, Eve of the living soul. Adam...
Malachi 2:10 - 17
Matthew Henry Concise
Corrupt practices are the fruit of corrupt principles; and he who is false to his God, will not be true to his fellow mortals. In contempt of the marriage covenant, which God instituted, the Jews...
Genesis 3:6
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And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food--Her imagination and feelings were completely won; and the fall of Eve was soon followed by that of Adam. The history of every temptation, and...
Isaiah 59:6
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not...garments--like the "fig leaves" wherewith Adam and Eve vainly tried to cover their shame, as contrasted with "the coats of skins" which the Lord God made to clothe them with (Isa 64:6; Ro...
1 Timothy 2:14
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Adam was not deceived--as Eve was deceived by the serpent; but was persuaded by his wife. Ge 3:17, "hearkened unto...voice of...wife." But in Ge 3:13, Eve says, "The serpent beguiled me." Being...
Genesis 2:24
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one flesh--The human pair differed from all other pairs, that by peculiar formation of Eve, they were one. And this passage is appealed to by our Lord as the divine institution of marriage (Mt...
Revelation 22:2
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The harmonious unity of Scripture is herein exhibited. The Fathers compared it to a ring, an unbroken circle, returning into itself. Between the events of Genesis and those at the close of the...
Hebrews 11:4
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more excellent sacrifice--because offered in faith. Now faith must have some revelation of God on which it fastens. The revelation in this case was doubtless God's command to sacrifice animals...
Ephesians 5:30
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For--Greek, "Because" (1Co 6:15). Christ nourisheth and cherisheth the Church as being of one flesh with Him. Translate, "Because we are members of His body (His literal body), being OF His flesh...
Genesis 4:25 - 26
Matthew Henry Concise
Our first parents were comforted in their affliction by the birth of a son, whom they called Seth, that is, set,' settled,' or placed;' in his seed mankind should continue to the end of time, and...
Ephesians 5:31
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For--The propagation of the Church from Christ, as that of Eve from Adam, is the foundation of the spiritual marriage. The natural marriage, wherein "a man leaves father and mother (the oldest...
Genesis 4:1 - 7
Matthew Henry Concise
When Cain was born, Eve said, I have gotten a man from the Lord. Perhaps she thought that this was the promised seed. If so, she was wofully disappointed. Abel signifies vanity: when she thought...
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