OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 3:10

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The man said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; so I hid myself.”

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Verse 10. Afraid. The just man is first to accuse himself: but Adam seeks for excuses in his sin: he throws the blame on his wife, and ultimately on God. Menochius.—Thou gavest me. Heretics have since treated the Sovereign Good with the like insolence; saying plainly, that God is the author of sin, and that the crime of Judas is no less his work than the conversion of Saint Paul. See Calvin’s works, and many of the first reformers, Luther, and so forth cited. Exodus 8:15. Bible.

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