(1-5) Adam and Eve transgress the Divine command, and fall into sin and misery. - Youngs Literal Bible In the sweat of The serpent deceives Eve. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.' - World English Bible by the sweat of thy face thou dost eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it hast thou been taken, for dust thou art, and unto dust thou turnest back. Several other places, especially in the Book of Psalms, the fact of man being created from dust is presented to bring out the contrast between God. This phrase is used around 93 times in the book, which expresses the idea of man being formed from the dust, as it was said to Adam, for dust you are and to dust you will return (Genesis 3:19).
(22-24)Berean Study Bible All go to one place all come from dust, and all return to dust. (20,21) Adam and Eve are driven out from paradise. (16-19) The first clothing of mankind. (14,15) The punishment of mankind. (9-13) The serpent cursed, The promised Seed.
Satan's plan was to draw our first parents to sin, and so to separate between them and their God. The tempter was the devil, in the shape and likeness of a serpent. All came from the dust and all return to the dust.Verses 1-5 Satan assaulted our first parents, to draw them to sin, and the temptation proved fatal to them. New American Standard Bible All go to the same place. New King James Version All go to one place: all are from the dust, and all return to dust.
They that would not eat the forbidden fruit, must not come near the forbidden tree. Satan took advantage by finding her near the forbidden tree. There are many temptations to which being alone gives great advantage but the communion of saints tends very much to their strength and safety. The person tempted was the woman: it was Satan's policy to enter into talk with her when she was alone.
He quoted the command wrong. Those who would be safe, need to be shy of talking with the tempter. He did not disclose his design at first, but he put a question which seemed innocent. Satan questioned whether it were a sin or not, to eat of this tree. It is his policy to send temptations by hands we do not suspect, and by those that have most influence upon us.
It was Eve's weakness to enter into this talk with the serpent: she might have perceived by his question, that he had no good design, and should therefore have started back. Has God said, Ye shall not lie, nor take his name in vain, nor be drunk, &c.? Yes, I am sure he has, and it is well said and by his grace I will abide by it. It is the craft of Satan to speak of the Divine law as uncertain or unreasonable, and so to draw people to sin it is our wisdom to keep up a firm belief of God's command, and a high respect for it. The devil, as he is a liar, so he is a scoffer from the beginning and scoffers are his children.
No condition will of itself bring content, unless the mind be brought to it. He aims to make them discontented with their present state, as if it were not so good as it might be, and should be. He promises advantage from their eating this fruit.
Let us, therefore, always think well of God as the best good, and think ill of sin as the worst evil: thus let us resist the devil, and he will flee from us. And still the devil draws people into his interest, by suggesting to them hard thoughts of God, and false hopes of advantage by sin. Satan ruined himself by desiring to be like the Most High, therefore he sought to infect our first parents with the same desire, that he might ruin them too.
He would have what he pleased, and do what he pleased. In neglecting the tree of life, of which he was allowed to eat, and eating of the tree of knowledge, which was forbidden, Adam plainly showed a contempt of what God had bestowed on him, and a desire for what God did not see fit to give him. Those that have done ill, are willing to draw in others to do the same. She gave it also to her husband with her.
They have more care to save their credit before men, than to obtain their pardon from God. See here what is commonly the folly of those that have sinned. Sooner or later it will bring shame either the shame of true repentance, which ends in glory, or that shame and everlasting contempt, to which the wicked shall rise at the great day. See her what dishonour and trouble sin is it makes mischief wherever it gets in, and destroys all comfort.
From Dust You Came Bible Full Of Confusion
If sinners will but consider where they are, they will not rest till they return to God. This lost sheep had wandered without end, if the good Shepherd had not sought after him, and told him, that where he was straying he could not be either happy or easy. Satan promised they should be safe, but they cannot so much as think themselves so! Adam and Eve were now miserable comforters to each other!Verses 9-13 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 enemies, in bondage to Satan, and in the high road to utter ruin. This shows the falsehood of the tempter, and the frauds of his temptations. No marvel that they became a terror to themselves, and full of confusion. Before they sinned, they would have welcomed God's gracious visits with humble joy but now he was become a terror to them.
Learn hence, that Satan's temptations are all beguilings his arguments are all deceits his allurements are all cheats when he speaks fair, believe him not. Those who are willing to take the pleasure and profit of sin, are backward to take the blame and shame of it. There is a strange proneness in those that are tempted, to say, they are tempted of God as if our abuse of God's gifts would excuse our breaking God's laws. But instead of acknowledging the sin in its full extent, and taking shame to themselves, Adam and Eve excuse the sin, and lay the shame and blame on others. Sin appears most plainly in the glass of the commandment, therefore God set it before Adam and in it we should see our faces. Like Adam, we have reason to be afraid of approaching to God, if we are not covered and clothed with the righteousness of Christ.
Under the cover of the serpent, the devil is sentenced to be degraded and accursed of God detested and abhorred of all mankind: also to be destroyed and ruined at last by the great Redeemer, signified by the breaking of his head. The devil's instruments must share in the devil's punishments. Let it not lessen our sorrow for sin, that we were beguiled into it but let it increase our self-indignation, that we should suffer ourselves to be deceived by a known cheat, and a sworn enemy, who would destroy our souls.Verses 14-15 God passes sentence and he begins where the sin began, with the serpent. Though he is the tempter, we are the sinners. But though Satan's subtlety may draw us into sin, yet it will not justify us in sin. See ( Romans 7:11 , Hebrews 3:13 ).
Heaven and hell can never be reconciled, nor light and darkness no more can Satan and a sanctified soul. Satan, by their corruptions, buffets them, sifts them, and seeks to devour them. It is the fruit of this enmity, that there is a continual warfare between grace and corruption, in the hearts of God's people.
By faith in this promise, our first parents, and the patriarchs before the flood, were justified and saved. Without a revelation of mercy, giving some hope of forgiveness, the convinced sinner would sink into despair, and be hardened. This gracious revelation of a Saviour came unasked, and unlooked for. Here was the drawn of the gospel day: no sooner was the wound given, than the remedy was provided and revealed. A gracious promise is here made of Christ, as the Deliverer of fallen man from the power of Satan.
His sufferings and death pointed at in Satan's bruising his heel, that is, his human nature. It speaks great encouragement to sinners, that their Saviour is the Seed of the woman, bone of our bone, ( hebrews 2:11 hebrews 2:14 ). His incarnation, or coming in the flesh.
Christ baffled Satan's temptations, rescued souls out of his hands. His victory over Satan thereby. But while the heel is bruised on earth, the Head is in heaven. The devil tempts them, persecutes and slays them and so bruises the heel of Christ, who is afflicted in their afflictions.
As the gospel gains ground, Satan falls.
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