11And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
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Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-13)The prisoners being found guilty by their own confession, besides the personal and infallible knowledge of the Judge, and nothing material being offered in arrest of judgment, God immediately proceeds to pass sentence; and, in these verses, he begins (where the sin began) with the serpent. God did not examine the serpent, nor ask him what he had done nor why he did it; but immediately sentenced hi…
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