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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 1 Timothy 2:14 - 2:14
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Adam was not deceived - as Eve was deceived by the serpent; but was persuaded by his wife. Gen 3:17, “hearkened unto ... voice of ... wife.” But in Gen 3:13, Eve says, “The serpent beguiled me.” Being more easily deceived, she more easily deceives [Bengel], (2Co 11:3). Last in being, she was first in sin - indeed, she alone was deceived. The subtle serpent knew that she was “the weaker vessel” (1Pe 3:7). He therefore tempted her, not Adam. She yielded to the temptations of sense and the deceits of Satan; he, to conjugal love. Hence, in the order of God’s judicial sentence, the serpent, the prime offender, stands first; the woman, who was deceived, next; and the man, persuaded by his wife, last (Gen 3:14-19). In Rom 5:12, Adam is represented as the first transgressor; but there no reference is made to Eve, and Adam is regarded as the head of the sinning race. Hence, as here, 1Ti 2:11, in Gen 3:16, woman’s “subjection” is represented as the consequence of her being deceived.
being deceived - The oldest manuscripts read the compound Greek verb for the simple, “Having been seduced by deceit”: implying how completely Satan succeeded in deceiving her.
was in the transgression - Greek, “came to be in the transgression”: became involved in the existing state of transgression, literally, “the going beyond a command”; breach of a positive precept (Rom 4:15).