The Pulpit Commentary — Genesis — Section 150

EXPOSITION. 1er. 20.-.Arraigned, convicted, judged, man and English, mama ;-Gesenius) of all the guilty but pardoned pair prepare to leave living. (1) Of Adam's children, though in their g:mlen borne-the woman to begin her this respect she might liave been so styled experience of sorrow, dependence, and sub- from the beginning; and (2) of all who jection ; the man to enter upon his life career should truly Ii ve in the sense of being the of hardship and toil, oud both to meet their woman's seed, as distingnished from the seed doom of certain, though it might be of long- of the serpent. In Adam's giving a second dehycd, death. The impression made upon name to his wife has been discerned the first their hearts by the Divine clemency, though assertion of his sovereignty or lordship over not directly stated by the historian, may be woman to which he was promoted subsequent inferred from what is next recorded as hav- to the fall (Luther), though this seems to be ing happened within the precincts of Eden negatived by the fact that Adam exercised ere they entered on their exile. And Adam the same prerogative immediately on her called (not prior to the fall, reading the creation ; an act of thoughtlessness on tho verb as a pluperfect (Calvin), nor after the part of Adam, in that, " being himself im- Lirth of Cain, transferring the present verse mersed in death,· he should have called his to eh. iv. 2 (Knobel), but subsequent to the wife by so proud a name" (Calvin) ; a proof promise of the woman's seed, and preceding of his incredulity (Rupertus). With a juster their ejection from the garden) his wife's appreciation of the spirit of the nan-ative, name Eve. Cliavvah, from clw.vvah = clw.y- modern expositors generally regard it 11s a yah, to live (cf. with the organic root chvi striking testimony to his faith. the Sanscrit, g,v ,· Gothic, quiv; Latin, Ver. 21.-Unto Adam also and to hie wife vioo, gi{J7W, vi,geo; Greek, 4aw, &e., the did the Lord God make coats (catlinoth, from fundamental idea being to breathe, to respire cathan, to cover; cf. x•rwv; Sanscri t, katam ,· -Furst), is correctly rendered life-4w~ by English, cotton) of skin (' or, the skin _of a the LXX., Josephus, Philo, Gesenius, De- man, from iir, to be nnked, hence a l11de). litzscl.t, Macdonald, &c. Lange, regarding it Neither their bodies (Origen), nor garments as an abbreviated form of the participle of the bark of trees (Gregory Nazianzen), mecl.avva)i, understands it to signify "the nor miraculously-fashioned apparel (Grotius), sustenance, i. e. the propagation of life ; " nor clothing made from the serpent's skin while Knobel, viewing it as an adjective, (R. Jonathan), but tunics prepared from the l1ints at woman's peculiar function-trn i1!r, skins of animals, slaughtered possibly for -to quicken seed (eh. xix. 32) as supplying food, as it is not certain that tho Edenic the explanation. Whether appended by the man was 11 vegetarian (eh. i. 29), though narrator (Delitzsch, Lange) or uttered by more probably slain in sacrifice. Though Adam (Kalisch, Macdonald), the words which said to have been made by God, " it is not follow give its true import and exegesis. proper so to understand the words, as if God Beeauae ■he was the mother (am--Greek, had been a furrier, or a servant to sew ,.a,,.,,.a ; Welsh, mani; Copt., man; Ger- clothes" (Calvin); God being said to m11.ke or on. m. 20-24.] THE BOOK OF GENESIS. 73