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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, on Gen 2:17
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown · 1871
Gen 2:17 · Douay-Rheims
“But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat. For in what day soever thou shalt eat of it, thou shalt die the death.”
On this verse:
“thou shalt not eat of it . . . thou shalt surely die--no reason assigned for the prohibition, but death was to be the punishment of disobedience. A positive command like this was not only the simplest and easiest, but the only trial to which their fidelity could be exposed.”
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.