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for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
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Verse 5. God. The old serpent’s aim is, to make us think God envies our happiness. Bible.—Or he would have Eve to suppose, she had not rightly understood her maker, who would surely never deprive her of a fruit which would give her such an increase of knowledge, as to make her conclude she was before comparatively blind. Menochius.—As gods, Hebrew Elohim, which means also princes, angels, or judges. It appears, that our first parents had flattered themselves with the hopes of attaining a divine knowledge of all things. Calmet.
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