The Pulpit Commentary — Genesis — Section 142

EXPOSITION. Yer. 8.-Ana they hea.ra the voice of the characteristic of our redemption-needing hu- Lora God. Either (1) the noise of his foot- manity" (Lange). And I hid myself. steps (cf. Lc,;t xxvi. 33; Num. x,;. 34 ; 2 Vers. 11, 12.-And he sa.ia. "To reprove 8am. v. 24; Knobel, Delit?.sch, Keil, Kaliscl1, the sottishncss of Adam" (Calvin) ; "to !llacdonal<l) ; or (2) the thunder that accom• awaken in him a sense of sin" (Keil). Who panied his approazh (cf. Exocl ix. 23; Job told thee tha.t thou wast na.ked 1 Delitzsch xxin·ii. 4, 5: T's. xxix. 3, 9; !1Iui1)ny, Ilush); finds in 'I.' an indication that a personal or (3) the souud of his voice (Cah;n, Lange, power was the prime cause of me.n's diso.bedi- Wor<lsworth); or (4) probably all four. Wa.lk· ence; but, as Lange rightly observes, it is tho ing in the ga.rden. If the voice, then in- occasion not of sin, but of the consciousness of creasing in intensity (cf. Exod. xix. 19; nakedness that is here inquirecl after. Hast Tiush); if Jehonl1, which is bctl:,:,r, then thou ea.ten of the tree (at once pointing Adam " "·andering or walking about in a circle " to the true cause of his nakedness, and inti• ";thin the garden boun<l.s (Macdonald). In mating the Divine cognisance of his trans- the cool (literally, the ITTn<l) of the da.y. The gression) whereof I commandea thee tha.t 1norning breeze (Calvin) ; the e,cning breeze thou shoulaest not ea.t 1 "Added to remove !Kalisch, Macdonalu.); ro ti,LA,vov (LXX.); the pretext of ignorance" (Calvin), and also auram post mei·icliem (Yul,(!ate); cf. horn ha' to aggravate the guilt of his offence, as having ,11im, " the heat of the day '' (Gen. XYiii 1 ). been done in direct violation of the Divine Ana Ada.m B.lld his wife hia themselves. Not prohibition. The question was fitted to can-y i u humility, e.s unworthy to come into God's conviction to Adam's conscience, and had the presence (Iren.-eus); or in amazement, as not instantaneous effect of eliciting a confession, kumYing which way to tun. (Augustine) ; or though neither a fre.nk one nor a generous. through mo<l.csty, (Knobel Bohlen) ; bnt from Ana the m.a.nsaid (beginnin 00 witb apology and a sense of guilt. From the presence of the ending with confcssion,-thus reversing the Lord. From which it is apparent they ex• natural order, and practically rolling back p~ctcd a visible manifcstatiorL the blame on God), The woma.n whom thou Ycrs. 9, 10.-Ana the Lord Goa ca.lled unto gavest to be with me (accusing the gift and Aaa.m. Adam's absence ,rns a clear proof the Giver in one), she ga.ve me of the tree. that something was wrong. Hitherto he had Cf. with the cold and unfeeling terms in which always welcomed the Divine ap1•roach. Ana Adam speaks of Eve the similar language in saia unto him, Where a.rt thou ! Not as if Gen. xxxvii. 32; Luke xv. 30; John ix. 12. ignorant of Adam's hiding-place but to bring "Without natural affection" is one of the him to confession (cf. eh. iv. 9). And I wa.s bitter fruits of sin (cf. Rom. i. 31). Equally afraid, beca.use I wo.s naked. Attributin 00 with the blasphemy, ingratitude, unkindness, 1,is fear to the wrong ea use-the voice of God a.ud meanness of this excuse, its frb•olity is or his in.sufficicllt clothing; a sign of special apparent ; e.s if, though Evo gave, that was obduracy (Calvin), which, however, admits any reason why Adam should havo eaten. of e. psychological explanation, viz., that" his Ana I did eat. Reluctantly elicited, the consciousness of the effects of sin was keener confession of his sin is very mildly state,!. than his sense of the sin itself" (Keil), "al- "A cold expression, manifesting neither any though all that he says is purely involuntary grief nor shame e.t so foul an act, but rathor a self-accusati,m" (Dclitzsch), and "the first desire to cover his sin" (White). instance of that mingling an<l. confusion of Ver. 13.-And the Lord saia unto the liin ancl pnnishment which is the peculiar woman-without noticing the cxru~cs, but  .111. m. B-19.) 'fHE BOOK OF GENESIS. 6E