Genesis 3:3

But of the fruit of the tree, which is in the midst of the garden,.... This tree stood near the tree of life, as is highly probable, since that is described in the same situation, Gen 2:9 she does not…

Neither shall ye touch it - Did not the woman add this to what God had before spoken? Some of the Jewish writers, who are only serious on comparative trifles, state that as soon as the woman had…

We have here an account of the temptation with which Satan assaulted our first parents, to draw them into sin, and which proved fatal to them. Here observe,

I. The tempter, and that was the devil, in…

of the fruit of the tree, &c. The woman speaks of only one tree, and that one is in the midst of the garden. She does not mention it by name. In Gen 2:9, where two trees are mentioned, the one which…