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God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"
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A Question to Convict
Commentators agree that God's question, "Who told you that you were naked?" was not for His own information. It was a divine tool to force Adam to look past the symptom (shame) and confront the root cause of his fear: his direct disobedience. As one scholar puts it, God's goal was to win Adam back by carrying his mind from the effect to the sin that had caused it.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
שׁוּף shûp “bruise, wound.” τηρεῖν (= τερεῖν ?) tērein ἐκτρίβειν ektribein …
19th Century
Anglican
EXCURSUS C: ON THE DURATION OF THE PARADISIACAL STATE OF INNOCENCE.
The Bereshit Rabba argues that Adam and Eve re…
Baptist
And he said, I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. And he said, –
Note the cal…
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16th Century
Protestant
Who told thee that thou wast naked? This is an indirect reprimand, rebuking Adam's dullness in not perceiving his fault through his punish…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And he said The Lord God, or the Word of the Lord; who told you that you were naked ?…
Observe the startling question: Adam, where art thou? Those who by sin go astray from God should seriously consider where they are; they a…
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