Gen.3:16 (was Study)

From a message by a Curious Questioner--
>CQ> Subj: STUDY...

>CQ> Genesis 3:16 "Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children..."

>CQ> Genesis 3:20 "And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living."

>CQ> Both of these passages are part of the Adamic covenant which occurs prior to Adam & Eves expulsion from the garden of Eden.

No, the LORD God completes his speaking in verse 19. Verse 20 is commentary written by Moses after the fact. (And there is not the slightest hint that Eve was expulsed/driven from the garden. :)

>CQ> Eve is promised an INCREASE in sorrow, conception and children.

The word is not increase, but "multiply", since God had said that they should be "fruitful and multiply," etc. It is evident that "the first man that was born" (Job.15:7p) was "Cain" in Gen.4:1, where Eve said, "I have gotten a man from the LORD." If she had gotten a man before Cain, then her statement would make no sense.

>CQ> Adam names his wife Eve BECAUSE she is the mother of all living.

IS? Moses, writing after the fact, said that he called her name Eve (LIFE) "because she was the mother of all living."

>CQ> For Eve to understand what God has said she must have concieved and had children while in the garden of Eden.

No. If they had children before Adam ate the forbidden fruit, then such children would not be partakers of Adam's sin, and therefore would have had access to the tree of life and they would have to "live for ever", but the flood destroyed all flesh on the earth, (except those in the ark,) in which was the breath of life.

>CQ> For Adam to choose Eve as a name she must have had children prior to being cast out of the garden.

Again, No. Moses was writing after the fact, and if you will look at the context, especially the verse just before Moses' comment, you will understand why Moses put the comment in that place.

"In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." (Gen.3:19)

That verse is speaking of the death of Adam. Does the next verse speak of the death of Eve? No! She was called Eve! (LIFE!) That, is the context, and reason for inserting the comment about Eve there! Adam caused sin to enter into the world, and death by sin. Eve brought LIFE into the world, and in particular "her seed", which is not seeds, as of many, but as of one, which is Christ Jesus the Lord, the author of eternal life, our Saviour. (Glory to God! :)

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with us all. Amen. --Richard