pped around them, and fastened with the girdles they had formed for this purpose. The primitive sewing, was some sort of tacking together, which was not more particularly described.Commentary 2-Keil & Delilitzsch I found it very interesting that Keil & Delilitzsch describe the serpent not only as a beast, but also as a creature of God, and therefore must have been good like everything else that God had madeThey state that subtilty was a natural characteristic of the serpent which led Satan to select it as his instrument. K & D describe the subtilty as the craft of a tempter to evil, in the simple fact that it was to the weaker woman that it turned. They go on to say that Satan used an interrogative yet cunning approach by his statement, Hath God indeed said, Ye shall not eat of all the trees of the garden? The serpent belittles the personality of the living God by calling him by the name, Elohim. K&D state that by Satan doing this, it would exaggerate the prohibition, or Gods demand, in the hopes of achieving a distrust of Gods word in the womans mind. Satans words were listened to. Instead of turning away, the woman replied, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye will die. She was fully aware of the order not to eat, but she added, neither shall ye touch it, and proved by this very exaggeration that it appeared too stringent even to her, and therefore that her love and confidence towards God were already beginning to waver. Here is the beginning of her fall. This is where K&D really bring to light a good point. They say in response to Satans words, God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, your eyes will be opened, and ye will be like God, knowing good and evil. It is not because the fruit of the tree will injure you that God has forbidden you to eat it...
