The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 3:4

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

And the serpent said unto the woman. "As God had preached to Adam, so Satan now also preaches to Eve … The object of Satan was to draw away Eve by his word or saying from that which God had said" (Luther).

Ye shall not surely die. Lo-moth temuthun. Thus the second step in his assault is to challenge the Divine veracity, in allusion to which it has been thought our Savior calls Satan a liar (cf. John 8:44 : ὁ ì ταν λαλῇ το Ì ψεῦ δος ἐ κ τῶ ν ἰ δι ì ων λαλεῖ ὁ τι ψευ ì στης ἐ στιν και Ì ὁ πατη Ì ρ αὐ τοῦ).

"Here, as far as we know, is his first begottten lie" (Bush).

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