נחשׁ nachash: “serpent; related: hiss,” Gesenius; “sting,” Meyer. ערוּם 'ārûm: “subtle, crafty, using craft for…

EXCURSUS C: ON THE DURATION OF THE PARADISIACAL STATE OF INNOCENCE.

The Bereshit Rabba argues that Adam and Eve re…

Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, Yes, has God said, You shall…

And the woman said to the serpent
Or to him that spoke in the serpent, which she might take to be a me enger from he…

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 likenes…