Genesis 3:7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together… 1. Yielding to Satan and suffering in evil are the twins of the same day. 2. Man and woman are equal in vengeance as well as sin. 3. Sin blinds to good, but opens mind and sight to experience evil. 4. Sin makes men very knowing in misery; wise to see their fall from heaven to hell. 5. Sin strips stark naked of spiritual and bodily good, and makes sensible of nothing but shame. 6. Sin is ashamed of itself, and seeks a covering. 7. Sin is very foolish in patching a veil or covering to hide from God — Leaves (ver. 7). 8. The voice of God pursueth sinners after guilt; sometimes inward and outward. 9. God hath His fit time to visit sinners. 10. God walks sometimes in wind and storms to find out the guilty. 11. Conscience hears and trembles at God's voice pursuing. 12. The face of the Lord God, which is life to His, is terrible to the guilty. 13. Sin persuades souls as if it were possible to hide from God. 14. All carnal shifts will sin make to shun God's sight; if leaves do not, then trees must closet them (ver. 8). (G. Hughes, B. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. |
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