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tree. Note the three trees: "Knowledge" (Gen_2:9), man's Ruin; "the Cross" (Act_10:39; Act_5:30. 1Pe_2:24), man's Redemption; "the Tree of Life" (Gen_2:9. Rev_2:7; Rev_22:2), man's Regeneration.
good and evil. See on "knowledge", Gen_2:9. Obedience proving what was "good" (Deu_6:24), disobedience revealing what was "evil" (Rom_3:20).
in the day = when. See App-18. Compare Gen_2:4. 1Ki_2:37. Eze_36:33, &c.
thou shalt surely die. Hebrew "dying thou shalt die". Figure of speech Polyptoton, for emph. Compare Gen_20:7; Gen_26:11. Exo_19:12; Exo_21:12, Exo_21:15, Exo_21:16, Exo_21:17; Exo_31:14, Exo_31:15. Lev_20:2, Lev_9:10, Lev_9:11, Lev_9:12, Lev_9:13, Lev_9:15, Lev_9:16, Lev_9:27; Lev_24:16, Lev_24:17; Lev_27:29. Num_15:35; Num_26:65; Num_35:16, Num_35:17, Num_35:18, Num_35:21, Num_35:31. Jdg_13:22; Jdg_15:13; Jdg_21:5. 1Sa_14:39, 1Sa_14:44; 1Sa_22:16. 2Sa_12:14. 1Ki_2:37, 1Ki_2:42; 2Ki_1:4, 2Ki_1:6, 2Ki_1:16; 2Ki_8:10. Jer_26:8, Jer_26:19; Jer_38:15. Eze_3:18; Eze_18:13; Eze_33:8, Eze_33:14. See note on Gen_26:28 for the emphasis of this Figure exhibited in other ways; and compare esp. note on Num_26:65. Here marked by the word "surely", as in Gen_2:16 by the word "freely". This certainty changed by Eve in Gen_3:3 into a contingency.