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 when the woman saw—This impure look of Eve, infected with the poison of concupiscence, was both the messenger and the witness of an im…

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, &c.] She being near the tree, and perhaps just at it when the ser…

Observe the steps of the transgre ion: not steps upward, but downward toward the pit.