Full Gen 2:17 and 3:1–6. Opposing-view treatment per §4.5: immediate spiritual death with delayed physical death (Augustine, Calvin); Hebrew moth tamuth as inceptive/emphatic (various Reformed); covenantal death as separation from God (Puritan). All three readings steelmanned; site does not adjudicate.
Tree of Knowledge — and "did they die that day?"
Gen 2:17's death-warning vs. Gen 5:5's 930 years.
Primary passage:Genesis 2:17 →
Commentary
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Matthew Henry
Complete Commentary
G E N E S I S CHAP. II. This chapter is an appendix to the history of the creation, more particularly explaining and enlarging upon that part of the history which relates immediately to man, the favourite of this lower world. We have in it, I. The institution and…
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