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" The confinement she feels is spreading, becoming intolerable, because in a hostile mind limitations grow to a maddening degree. Moreover, God had strongly warned, “You shall surely die.” But the woman now softens it to “. . . lest you die.” Now that her view of the consequences is less alarming, Satan springs on that very point: "

Raymond C. Ortlund Jr. , Marriage and the Mystery of the Gospel (Short Studies in Biblical Theology)


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Raymond C. Ortlund Jr. quote : The confinement she feels is spreading, becoming intolerable, because in a hostile mind limitations grow to a maddening degree. Moreover, God had strongly warned, “You shall surely die.” But the woman now softens it to “. . . lest you die.” Now that her view of the consequences is less alarming, Satan springs on that very point: