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 eyes of them both were opened. It was necessary that the eyes of Eve should be veiled until her husband also was deceived; but now…

And the eyes of them both were opened
Not of their bodies, but of their minds; not so as to have an advanced knowled…

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