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Apr 8, 2019 | All Posts
A striking thing about this [six-point] pattern is that it is totally absent in the speech to the woman. He does not say to her “Because [you have done this.]” No curse is pronounced on the woman, or even because of the woman. Nothing is said about “eating,”...
Apr 7, 2019 | All Posts
Many think that God’s three speeches to the participants of the Great Disobedience are similar to each other in pattern and meaning throughout. But this is not so! Only the first and third speeches, to the rebellious serpent-tempter and to the rebellious man,...
Apr 6, 2019 | All Posts
God’s words to the woman were uniquely patterned. They were unlike the others. Why so different? The woman had not willfully rebelled against the Lord God as had the other two. She acted because she had been deceived. And as soon as she realized what had...
Apr 5, 2019 | All Posts
Does any other Bible passage refer to the linchpin in Genesis 3:16a? The Apostle Paul apparently did for he builds one into his famous Eden passage in Ephesians 5:25. Eden … Really? In verse 31 of the tightly constructed passage which starts in Ephesians 5:15,...
Apr 4, 2019 | All Posts
In the two-word linchpin construction of Genesis 3:16a, the word “sorrowful-toil” proleptically anticipates the reference to the same word in 3:17 where God actually curses the ground because of the man and explains its impact in terms of “sorrowful-toil.” The...
Apr 3, 2019 | All Posts
In the first of two linchpins in the extended passage of Genesis 2-3, in Genesis 2:8, two words make up the linchpin. Each is linked to corresponding words in verses 7 and 9. The diagram shows how the initial word of verse 8 – “planted” – points down to verse...
