Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
till thou return unto the ground—Man became mortal; although he did not die the moment he ate the forbidden fruit, his body underwent a change, and that would lead to dissolution; the union subsisting between his soul and God having already been dissolved, he had become liable to all the miseries of this life and to the pains of hell for ever. What a mournful chapter this is in the history of man! It gives the only true account of the origin of all the physical and moral evils that are in the world; upholds the moral character of God; shows that man, made upright, fell from not being able to resist a slight temptation; and becoming guilty and miserable, plunged all his posterity into the same abyss (Romans 5:12). How astonishing the grace which at that moment gave promise of a Saviour and conferred on her who had the disgrace of introducing sin the future honor of introducing that Deliverer (I Timothy 2:15).
unto Adam he said—made to gain his livelihood by tilling the ground; but what before his fall he did with ease and pleasure, was not to be accomplished after it without painful and persevering exertion.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Genesis 3:19:
Genesis 3:14
Job 4:19
Job 30:23
Job 30:24
Job 34:14-15
Psalms 90:3
Ecclesiastes 1:3
Ecclesiastes 1:13
1 Corinthians 15:47
1 Timothy 2:14
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