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A New, Painful Reality
Commentators agree that the woman's sentence involves two key consequences: pain in childbearing and a change in the marital dynamic. Scholars like Calvin and Gill suggest that the fall distorted what might have been a gentle, harmonious order into a relationship of difficult subjection. Her independent action in the transgression resulted in her being placed under her husband's rule.
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Albert Barnes
On Genesis 3:8–21
18th Century
Theologian
שׁוּף shûp “bruise, wound.” τηρεῖν (= τερεῖν ?) tērein ἐκτρίβειν ektribein …
Charles Ellicott
On Genesis 3:1–24
19th Century
Bishop
EXCURSUS C: ON THE DURATION OF THE PARADISIACAL STATE OF INNOCENCE.
The Bereshit Rabba argues that Adam and Eve re…
Charles Spurgeon
On Genesis 3:16–18
19th Century
Preacher
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall …
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John Calvin
On Genesis 3:16
16th Century
Theologian
Unto the woman he said. So that the majesty of the judge may shine more brightly, God uses no lengthy debate; from this we may also percei…
John Gill
On Genesis 3:16
17th Century
Pastor
Unto the woman he said
The woman receives her sentence next to the serpent, and before the man, because she was firs…
Matthew Henry
On Genesis 3:16–19
17th Century
Minister
The woman, for her sin, is condemned to a state of sorrow and of subjection���proper punishments for that sin, in which she had sought to gratify t…