2And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
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Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)I. The tempter, and that was the devil, in the shape and likeness of a serpent. 1. It is certain it was the devil that beguiled Eve. The devil and Satan is the old serpent (Rev. 12:9), a malignant spirit, by creation an angel of light and an immediate attendant upon God’s throne, but by sin become an apostate from his first state and a rebel against God’s crown and dignity. Multitudes of the angel…
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