And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
Adam called his wife Eve because she was to be the mother of all living, and together as father and mother of the race they stand as the first parents at the beginning of human history. The naming came after they ventured to break God's express prohibition and eat of the one forbidden tree, a seemingly small step rooted in indulgence of appetite and desire for knowledge God had withheld. That violation of God's law brought sin and death into the world, marred His image in man, estranged humanity from God, and drove them from Eden to toil among thorns and weeds under the curse. God did not leave the fallen race without hope but gave His Son to pay the debt of transgression and open another probation, and Christ coming to the very ground where Adam fell gained the victory Adam lost so that fallen men may keep the law through His merits and regain Eden. The justice of God against disobedience still stands exact and unchanging, so the lesson is to abhor sin and keep every commandment in strict obedience, resisting appetite and Satan's devices and seeking God while He may be found.
Naming After The Fall
Adam called his wife Eve because she was the mother of all living, and together Adam as father of the race and Eve as his wife are the first parents of humanity standing at the beginning of inspired history. They were placed in Eden in holy innocency in communion with God and sinless angels, with permission to eat of every tree in the garden but one, and from them the introduction of sin and its results upon the race can be traced step by step in human disobedience and impenitence meeting just retribution, so that searching out these hidden treasures and jewels of truth develops and strengthens the intellect beyond all that philosophy embraces. Their transgression was a violation of the law of God that lost beautiful Eden, degraded it by the introduction of sin, and opened the floodgates of woe to the world, leaving all descendants ever since laboring under the oppressive load of sin from which sin has steadily grown worse. That transgression reveals the justice of God, which required that the Son of God step in and pledge His own life as the penalty for transgression to give fallen man another trial and probation in God's wise plans, and that provision did not abolish God's law to give unconditional pardon, for benevolence was not put above justice to exalt the impenitent sinner and encourage transgression instead of abating it. Through the sacrifice of Christ alone fallen humanity has been granted that trial, for the Son opened a way of escape by taking man's transgressions and their just penalty upon Himself, laying aside His robes of royalty, clothing His divinity with humanity and coming as a man of sorrows acquainted with grief, suffering insult and reproach and mockery though He was the Majesty of heaven. Their example and its result teach every soul to avoid sin and abhor it as the hateful thing it is, feeling in view of the sufferings sin inflicts that it is better to suffer loss of all things than to depart from the least of God's commandments.
The naming stands in the account of Adam and Eve venturing to transgress God's express prohibition by taking the forbidden fruit, though permitted to eat of every other tree. The step looked simple and apparently small and unworthy of notice, yet it brought bitter experience with awful consequences, closed the gates of Paradise against them, caused their fall, loss of Eden and expulsion from it, and opened the floodgates of woe. It was rooted in intemperance of desire, in indulgence of appetite and passion against express injunctions, and in desire for the knowledge God had withheld, which led them to the forbidden tree where by listening to the tempter they became acquainted with sin and its results. Their disobedience in violating the law estranged humanity from God and separated earth from heaven, and if the race had ceased falling when Adam was driven from Eden, humanity would now be far more elevated physically, mentally, and morally. Getting ready for Paradise restored requires bringing perverted and depraved appetite under strict control, because its indulgence weakens power to resist evil and enables Satan to fasten evil habits upon man and ensnare him in his devices. Ever since that apparently small transgression sin has been increasing in volume and prevalence and is still increasing, yet divine benevolence has not been cut off, and God's love and care still flow earthward to the race descended from them.
Eve shared daily labor with Adam in the garden and had been cautioned to avoid separating from her husband while at work, since with him she would face less danger from temptation than alone. Absorbed in her pleasing task she wandered from his side without realizing it, and on finding herself alone she felt fear of danger but dismissed it, deciding she had enough wisdom and strength to discern evil and withstand it. Unmindful of the caution she lingered gazing with mingled curiosity and admiration at the forbidden tree and its beautiful fruit, questioning within herself why God had withheld it, and the tempter seized that moment to speak to her thoughts about eating from every tree of the garden. Satan, after failing to have God's unchangeable law altered in heaven and being cast out with his sympathizers, worked cautiously upon the minds of Adam and Eve and seduced them from loyalty until they disobeyed and fell, telling them through the lie that eating would give higher perceptions to know good and evil and make them like angels in heaven, which they believed though his words proved a lie. The law could not be changed to meet man in his fallen condition to pardon Adam and retain him in Eden, for the penalty of transgression was death, so Christ became man's substitute and surety, and Adam with Eve and all their posterity was placed upon probation while Satan's work of leading men in the same disobedience has continued ever since.
After eating they lost their Eden home, were driven out and shut out of Paradise, could no longer cultivate it, and were set to work among thistles, brambles, thorns and weeds brought by the curse which Satan had sown. Beautiful Eden was degraded by that transgression, and the naming marks the beginning of human history after Eden's transgression, whose evils have been aggravated through continued violation of moral and physical laws. The verse belongs to the account of Adam after the fall, when he was still fallen but a door of hope had opened through Christ the Redeemer. That fall made necessary the gift of God's Son from heaven to die to pay the debt of transgression and save the fallen race, a sacrifice that exalts the law and evidences its sacred character by making it possible for fallen man to keep the law through the merits of His blood. Eve as mother of all living left Adam living for nearly a thousand years among those living descendants, to the ninth generation, as a witness to the results of sin, faithfully seeking to stem evil by treasuring what God revealed, describing man's holy and happy estate in Paradise, repeating the fall, telling the sufferings that taught strict adherence to law, and explaining merciful provisions for salvation, yet few gave heed and he was often met with bitter reproaches for bringing woe upon posterity.
Ruin And Divine Justice
Adam's transgression was a violation of God's law that brought sin and great woe into the world, and his example stands as a warning against disobedience. Sin brings death, and God's retributive justice does not fail. Adam was made upright, holy and happy, but disobedience cost him divine favor and happiness and plunged the human race into misery and despair. By listening to the tempter at the forbidden tree, the first parents became acquainted with sin and its results, and their disobedience estranged humanity from God and separated earth from heaven. The fall brought the loss and marring of God's image, weakened human powers, and subjection to death.
That woe opened floodgates upon the world from which sin has steadily grown worse. After Adam lost Eden by disobedience and sin entered the world, men became more and more disobedient. The fall began a succession of human falls, bringing great suffering as people continue to repeat his disobedience by violating God's law. Adam's disobedience broke the charm of obedience and weakened humanity's sense that obedience to God is necessary. The physical and moral harms passed from parents to their children are another repetition of that Fall.
God is severe and exacting against disobedience rather than merciful toward continued sin, for the step that looked simple and unworthy of notice brought bitter experience with awful consequences, the fall and expulsion from Eden and floodgates of woe to the world. The law could not be changed to meet man in his fallen condition to pardon Adam and retain him in Eden, for the penalty of transgression was death. Adam and Eve lost their right to Eden because they disobeyed a command of God, and their fall disproves the doctrine of once in grace always in grace and demonstrates the sure result of transgressing God's law, with the condition of the fallen race today testifying to the awful results. Their transgression reveals the justice of God, which required that the Son of God step in and pledge His own life as the penalty to give man another trial, and that provision did not abolish God's law to give unconditional pardon, for the Father did not put benevolence above justice and set aside the principles of righteousness, which would have exalted the sinner in impenitence and encouraged transgression instead of abating it.
After the fall Satan claimed to be the prince of the power of the air with control of everything in nature. God permitted him to sow tares and work out his principles of evil, while protecting from Satan's wrath those who desire to work out the principles of heaven. Satan's work of leading men in the same line of disobedience has continued ever since.
Redemption And Human Response
God did not leave humanity in its fallen condition but made necessary the gift of His Son from heaven to die to pay the debt of transgression and save the fallen race. That step that looked simple and unworthy of notice had brought a bitter experience with awful consequences, opening the floodgates of woe, causing the loss of Eden and expulsion from it, leaving man helpless under Satan's power and in need of redemption. The transgression was violation of God's law that marred His image, weakened human powers, and subjected humanity to death, yet it stands within the larger story of salvation and restoration of that image. The law could not be changed to meet man in his fallen condition to pardon and retain him in Eden, for the penalty was death, so Christ became man's substitute and surety, pledging His own life as the penalty to give man another trial and probation. That provision did not abolish the law to give unconditional pardon, for benevolence was not put above justice nor righteousness set aside, which would have exalted the impenitent sinner and encouraged transgression instead of abating it.
The valuable sacrifice exalts the law and evidences its sacred character by making it possible for fallen man to keep the law through the merits of Christ's blood, death, obedience, and imputed righteousness. Christ laid aside royal robes and clothed divinity with humanity as a man of sorrows, taking man's transgressions upon Himself, and through the sacrifice of Christ alone fallen humanity has been granted another trial. He came in humanity to the very ground where Adam fell, endured the test Adam failed, and overcame Satan's temptations, redeeming Adam's failure and fall. Where Adam was made upright, holy, and happy but by disobedience cost himself divine favor and happiness and plunged the race into misery and despair, Christ lived in constant perfect obedience to set an example all can follow. Where Adam became a law to himself bringing discord, unhappiness, and separation between him and God, Christ in the wilderness of temptation passed over the same ground and gained the victory.
That victory placed the whole human family descended from Eve as mother of all living, left in disgrace and without vantage ground with God, back on vantage ground with God. None can overcome in own strength but only by faith in Him as Saviour now, whose death and obedience to every requirement of the transgressed law imputes righteousness to those who obey, so that through the merits of the crucified and risen Saviour every person can overcome in his own behalf. As Eden was lost by transgressing the law, those who transgress it will lose heaven, but overcoming as Christ overcame by perfect obedience brings back to the Eden home, regaining what Adam lost and pointing bending footsteps heavenward toward that restored home. Disobedience must not be repeated but replaced with obedience to all of God's requirements.
Eve as mother of all living left Adam living for nearly a thousand years among those living descendants, to the ninth generation, as a witness to the results of sin. He faithfully sought to stem the tide of evil by instructing his posterity in the way of the Lord, carefully treasuring what God had revealed and repeating it to succeeding generations. He described man's holy and happy estate in Paradise, repeated the history of the fall, told of the sufferings by which he learned the necessity of strict adherence to God's law, and explained the merciful provisions for salvation. Yet few gave heed to his words, and he was often met with bitter reproaches for the sin that had brought woe upon his posterity.
Adam's example warns people against disobedience and against violating express injunctions by indulging appetite and passion. Adam and Eve as first parents stand at the beginning of inspired history, placed in Eden in holy innocency in communion with God and sinless angels, from whom the introduction of sin and its results upon the race can be traced step by step in human disobedience and impenitence meeting just retribution. Their example teaches every soul to avoid sin and abhor sin as the hateful thing it is, feeling in view of the sufferings sin is sure to inflict that it is better to suffer loss of all things than to depart from the least of God's commandments. Adam's disobedience broke the charm of obedience and weakened humanity's sense that obedience is necessary, and if the race had ceased falling when driven from Eden, humanity would now be far more elevated physically, mentally, and morally. Continuing in that same disobedience forfeits the right to the Eden restored, therefore delay no longer but leave the side of the great rebel, repent for time and talents given to the enemy, give the whole soul to God, choose the good and refuse the evil, and seek the Lord while He may be found.
Adam called his wife Eve because she was to be the mother of all living, and together as father and mother of the race they stand as the first parents at the beginning of human history. The naming came after they ventured to break God's express prohibition and eat of the one forbidden tree, a seemingly small step rooted in indulgence of appetite and desire for knowledge God had withheld. That violation of God's law brought sin and death into the world, marred His image in man, estranged humanity from God, and drove them from Eden to toil among thorns and weeds under the curse. God did not leave the fallen race without hope but gave His Son to pay the debt of transgression and open another probation, and Christ coming to the very ground where Adam fell gained the victory Adam lost so that fallen men may keep the law through His merits and regain Eden. The justice of God against disobedience still stands exact and unchanging, so the lesson is to abhor sin and keep every commandment in strict obedience, resisting appetite and Satan's devices and seeking God while He may be found.
Naming After The Fall
Adam called his wife Eve because she was the mother of all living, and together Adam as father of the race and Eve as his wife are the first parents of humanity standing at the beginning of inspired history. They were placed in Eden in holy innocency in communion with God and sinless angels, with permission to eat of every tree in the garden but one, and from them the introduction of sin and its results upon the race can be traced step by step in human disobedience and impenitence meeting just retribution, so that searching out these hidden treasures and jewels of truth develops and strengthens the intellect beyond all that philosophy embraces. Their transgression was a violation of the law of God that lost beautiful Eden, degraded it by the introduction of sin, and opened the floodgates of woe to the world, leaving all descendants ever since laboring under the oppressive load of sin from which sin has steadily grown worse. That transgression reveals the justice of God, which required that the Son of God step in and pledge His own life as the penalty for transgression to give fallen man another trial and probation in God's wise plans, and that provision did not abolish God's law to give unconditional pardon, for benevolence was not put above justice to exalt the impenitent sinner and encourage transgression instead of abating it. Through the sacrifice of Christ alone fallen humanity has been granted that trial, for the Son opened a way of escape by taking man's transgressions and their just penalty upon Himself, laying aside His robes of royalty, clothing His divinity with humanity and coming as a man of sorrows acquainted with grief, suffering insult and reproach and mockery though He was the Majesty of heaven. Their example and its result teach every soul to avoid sin and abhor it as the hateful thing it is, feeling in view of the sufferings sin inflicts that it is better to suffer loss of all things than to depart from the least of God's commandments.
The naming stands in the account of Adam and Eve venturing to transgress God's express prohibition by taking the forbidden fruit, though permitted to eat of every other tree. The step looked simple and apparently small and unworthy of notice, yet it brought bitter experience with awful consequences, closed the gates of Paradise against them, caused their fall, loss of Eden and expulsion from it, and opened the floodgates of woe. It was rooted in intemperance of desire, in indulgence of appetite and passion against express injunctions, and in desire for the knowledge God had withheld, which led them to the forbidden tree where by listening to the tempter they became acquainted with sin and its results. Their disobedience in violating the law estranged humanity from God and separated earth from heaven, and if the race had ceased falling when Adam was driven from Eden, humanity would now be far more elevated physically, mentally, and morally. Getting ready for Paradise restored requires bringing perverted and depraved appetite under strict control, because its indulgence weakens power to resist evil and enables Satan to fasten evil habits upon man and ensnare him in his devices. Ever since that apparently small transgression sin has been increasing in volume and prevalence and is still increasing, yet divine benevolence has not been cut off, and God's love and care still flow earthward to the race descended from them.
Eve shared daily labor with Adam in the garden and had been cautioned to avoid separating from her husband while at work, since with him she would face less danger from temptation than alone. Absorbed in her pleasing task she wandered from his side without realizing it, and on finding herself alone she felt fear of danger but dismissed it, deciding she had enough wisdom and strength to discern evil and withstand it. Unmindful of the caution she lingered gazing with mingled curiosity and admiration at the forbidden tree and its beautiful fruit, questioning within herself why God had withheld it, and the tempter seized that moment to speak to her thoughts about eating from every tree of the garden. Satan, after failing to have God's unchangeable law altered in heaven and being cast out with his sympathizers, worked cautiously upon the minds of Adam and Eve and seduced them from loyalty until they disobeyed and fell, telling them through the lie that eating would give higher perceptions to know good and evil and make them like angels in heaven, which they believed though his words proved a lie. The law could not be changed to meet man in his fallen condition to pardon Adam and retain him in Eden, for the penalty of transgression was death, so Christ became man's substitute and surety, and Adam with Eve and all their posterity was placed upon probation while Satan's work of leading men in the same disobedience has continued ever since.
After eating they lost their Eden home, were driven out and shut out of Paradise, could no longer cultivate it, and were set to work among thistles, brambles, thorns and weeds brought by the curse which Satan had sown. Beautiful Eden was degraded by that transgression, and the naming marks the beginning of human history after Eden's transgression, whose evils have been aggravated through continued violation of moral and physical laws. The verse belongs to the account of Adam after the fall, when he was still fallen but a door of hope had opened through Christ the Redeemer. That fall made necessary the gift of God's Son from heaven to die to pay the debt of transgression and save the fallen race, a sacrifice that exalts the law and evidences its sacred character by making it possible for fallen man to keep the law through the merits of His blood. Eve as mother of all living left Adam living for nearly a thousand years among those living descendants, to the ninth generation, as a witness to the results of sin, faithfully seeking to stem evil by treasuring what God revealed, describing man's holy and happy estate in Paradise, repeating the fall, telling the sufferings that taught strict adherence to law, and explaining merciful provisions for salvation, yet few gave heed and he was often met with bitter reproaches for bringing woe upon posterity.
Ruin And Divine Justice
Adam's transgression was a violation of God's law that brought sin and great woe into the world, and his example stands as a warning against disobedience. Sin brings death, and God's retributive justice does not fail. Adam was made upright, holy and happy, but disobedience cost him divine favor and happiness and plunged the human race into misery and despair. By listening to the tempter at the forbidden tree, the first parents became acquainted with sin and its results, and their disobedience estranged humanity from God and separated earth from heaven. The fall brought the loss and marring of God's image, weakened human powers, and subjection to death.
That woe opened floodgates upon the world from which sin has steadily grown worse. After Adam lost Eden by disobedience and sin entered the world, men became more and more disobedient. The fall began a succession of human falls, bringing great suffering as people continue to repeat his disobedience by violating God's law. Adam's disobedience broke the charm of obedience and weakened humanity's sense that obedience to God is necessary. The physical and moral harms passed from parents to their children are another repetition of that Fall.
God is severe and exacting against disobedience rather than merciful toward continued sin, for the step that looked simple and unworthy of notice brought bitter experience with awful consequences, the fall and expulsion from Eden and floodgates of woe to the world. The law could not be changed to meet man in his fallen condition to pardon Adam and retain him in Eden, for the penalty of transgression was death. Adam and Eve lost their right to Eden because they disobeyed a command of God, and their fall disproves the doctrine of once in grace always in grace and demonstrates the sure result of transgressing God's law, with the condition of the fallen race today testifying to the awful results. Their transgression reveals the justice of God, which required that the Son of God step in and pledge His own life as the penalty to give man another trial, and that provision did not abolish God's law to give unconditional pardon, for the Father did not put benevolence above justice and set aside the principles of righteousness, which would have exalted the sinner in impenitence and encouraged transgression instead of abating it.
After the fall Satan claimed to be the prince of the power of the air with control of everything in nature. God permitted him to sow tares and work out his principles of evil, while protecting from Satan's wrath those who desire to work out the principles of heaven. Satan's work of leading men in the same line of disobedience has continued ever since.
Redemption And Human Response
God did not leave humanity in its fallen condition but made necessary the gift of His Son from heaven to die to pay the debt of transgression and save the fallen race. That step that looked simple and unworthy of notice had brought a bitter experience with awful consequences, opening the floodgates of woe, causing the loss of Eden and expulsion from it, leaving man helpless under Satan's power and in need of redemption. The transgression was violation of God's law that marred His image, weakened human powers, and subjected humanity to death, yet it stands within the larger story of salvation and restoration of that image. The law could not be changed to meet man in his fallen condition to pardon and retain him in Eden, for the penalty was death, so Christ became man's substitute and surety, pledging His own life as the penalty to give man another trial and probation. That provision did not abolish the law to give unconditional pardon, for benevolence was not put above justice nor righteousness set aside, which would have exalted the impenitent sinner and encouraged transgression instead of abating it.
The valuable sacrifice exalts the law and evidences its sacred character by making it possible for fallen man to keep the law through the merits of Christ's blood, death, obedience, and imputed righteousness. Christ laid aside royal robes and clothed divinity with humanity as a man of sorrows, taking man's transgressions upon Himself, and through the sacrifice of Christ alone fallen humanity has been granted another trial. He came in humanity to the very ground where Adam fell, endured the test Adam failed, and overcame Satan's temptations, redeeming Adam's failure and fall. Where Adam was made upright, holy, and happy but by disobedience cost himself divine favor and happiness and plunged the race into misery and despair, Christ lived in constant perfect obedience to set an example all can follow. Where Adam became a law to himself bringing discord, unhappiness, and separation between him and God, Christ in the wilderness of temptation passed over the same ground and gained the victory.
That victory placed the whole human family descended from Eve as mother of all living, left in disgrace and without vantage ground with God, back on vantage ground with God. None can overcome in own strength but only by faith in Him as Saviour now, whose death and obedience to every requirement of the transgressed law imputes righteousness to those who obey, so that through the merits of the crucified and risen Saviour every person can overcome in his own behalf. As Eden was lost by transgressing the law, those who transgress it will lose heaven, but overcoming as Christ overcame by perfect obedience brings back to the Eden home, regaining what Adam lost and pointing bending footsteps heavenward toward that restored home. Disobedience must not be repeated but replaced with obedience to all of God's requirements.
Eve as mother of all living left Adam living for nearly a thousand years among those living descendants, to the ninth generation, as a witness to the results of sin. He faithfully sought to stem the tide of evil by instructing his posterity in the way of the Lord, carefully treasuring what God had revealed and repeating it to succeeding generations. He described man's holy and happy estate in Paradise, repeated the history of the fall, told of the sufferings by which he learned the necessity of strict adherence to God's law, and explained the merciful provisions for salvation. Yet few gave heed to his words, and he was often met with bitter reproaches for the sin that had brought woe upon his posterity.
Adam's example warns people against disobedience and against violating express injunctions by indulging appetite and passion. Adam and Eve as first parents stand at the beginning of inspired history, placed in Eden in holy innocency in communion with God and sinless angels, from whom the introduction of sin and its results upon the race can be traced step by step in human disobedience and impenitence meeting just retribution. Their example teaches every soul to avoid sin and abhor sin as the hateful thing it is, feeling in view of the sufferings sin is sure to inflict that it is better to suffer loss of all things than to depart from the least of God's commandments. Adam's disobedience broke the charm of obedience and weakened humanity's sense that obedience is necessary, and if the race had ceased falling when driven from Eden, humanity would now be far more elevated physically, mentally, and morally. Continuing in that same disobedience forfeits the right to the Eden restored, therefore delay no longer but leave the side of the great rebel, repent for time and talents given to the enemy, give the whole soul to God, choose the good and refuse the evil, and seek the Lord while He may be found.