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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 3:14 - 3:14
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Gen 3:14-24. The sentence.
And the Lord God said unto the serpent - The Judge pronounces a doom: first, on the material serpent, which is cursed above all creatures. From being a model of grace and elegance in form, it has become the type of all that is odious, disgusting, and low [Le Clerc, Rosenmuller]; or the curse has converted its natural condition into a punishment; it is now branded with infamy and avoided with horror; next, on the spiritual serpent, the seducer. Already fallen, he was to be still more degraded and his power wholly destroyed by the offspring of those he had deceived.