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Both of their eyes were opened, and they knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
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A Tragic Awakening
Commentators stress that when Adam and Eve's 'eyes were opened,' it was not a gain of divine wisdom but a painful awakening to their own guilt and shame. The serpent's promise of becoming like God was a lie. Instead of gaining noble knowledge, they lost their innocence and peace, and their new awareness only brought fear and a sense of condemnation.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
נחשׁ nachash: “serpent; related: hiss,” Gesenius; “sting,” Meyer. ערוּם 'ārûm: “subtle, crafty, using craft for…
19th Century
Anglican
EXCURSUS C: ON THE DURATION OF THE PARADISIACAL STATE OF INNOCENCE.
The Bereshit Rabba argues that Adam and Eve re…
Baptist
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…
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16th Century
Protestant
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…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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 transgression: not steps upward, but downward toward the pit.
She saw. A great deal of sin comes in at the…
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