Genesis 3:4 (WEB)
The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t really die,
Catechism · 2
“Behind the disobedient choice of our first parents lurks a seductive voice, opposed to God, which makes them fall into death out of envy.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Gen 3:1-5; Wis 2:24.
“This is what man's first sin consisted of.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Gen 3:1-11 ; Rom 5:19.
Fathers and councils · 6
Irenaeus of Lyons
“…saying, “Ye shall not die by death; for God knew that in the day ye shall eat of it your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.”” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 4.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For if an angel is able to use air, mist, cloud, fire, and any other natural substance or corporal species; and man to use face, tongue, hand, pen, letters, or any other significants, for the purpose of intimating the secret things of his own mind: in a word, if,…” — editor's note: [Judg. xiii. 20. This mysterious subject may be illustrated from Holy Scripture so as to justify our author’s very broad statement. It throws light on Gen.…
Read the whole comment“Who even in the case of Job, kept for him his wife, that by her the husband might be, not comforted, but tempted?” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 1–6.
Read the whole comment“…they so weave together good words without the fruit of good works, as while living wickedly to cover over their disgrace as it were by speaking well.” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 4
Read the whole comment“…and the woman did not eat alone, but gave to her husband, and they eat together; although she alone spoke with the serpent, and she alone was led away by him: so also in the case of that hidden and secret kind of wedlock, which is transacted and discerned in a single human being, the carnal, or as I may say, since it…” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 1–6
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Jerome
“Perchance, mindful of his old trick, he will try to tempt Bonosus with hunger.” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 1–6; Matt. iv. 1–4.
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Cross-references · 14
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XII.8.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XII.8.
Cited together in Catechism §391.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XII.12.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XII.12.
Cited together in Catechism §391 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XII.12.
Cited together in Catechism §397.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XII.12.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XII.12.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.23.
Cited together in Catechism §391.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.23.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.23.