SEV Biblia, Chapter 3:5
Mas sabe Dios, que el día que comiereis de él, serán abiertos vuestros ojos, y seréis como dioses, sabiendo el bien y el mal.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Genesis 3:5
Verse 5. Your eyes shall be opened] Your understanding shall be greatly enlightened and improved; and ye shall be as gods, µyhlak kelohim, like God, so the word should be translated; for what idea could our first parents have of gods before idolatry could have had any being, because sin had not yet entered into the world? The Syriac has the word in the singular number, and is the only one of all the versions which has hit on the true meaning. As the original word is the same which is used to point out the Supreme Being, chap. i. 1, so it has here the same signification, and the object of the tempter appears to have been this: to persuade our first parents that they should, by eating of this fruit, become wise and powerful as God, (for knowledge is power,) and be able to exist for ever, independently of him.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-5 - Satan assaulted our first parents, to draw them to sin, and the temptation proved fatal to them. The tempter was the devil, in the shape and likeness of a serpent. Satan's plan was to draw our firs parents to sin, and so to separate between them and their God. Thus the devil was from the beginning a murderer, and the great mischief maker The person tempted was the woman: it was Satan's policy to enter int talk with her when she was alone. There are many temptations to whic being alone gives great advantage; but the communion of saints tend very much to their strength and safety. Satan took advantage by findin her near the forbidden tree. They that would not eat the forbidde fruit, must not come near the forbidden tree. Satan tempted Eve, tha by her he might tempt Adam. It is his policy to send temptations by hands we do not suspect, and by those that have most influence upon us Satan questioned whether it were a sin or not, to eat of this tree. He did not disclose his design at first, but he put a question whic seemed innocent. Those who would be safe, need to be shy of talkin with the tempter. He quoted the command wrong. He spoke in a tauntin way. The devil, as he is a liar, so he is a scoffer from the beginning and scoffers are his children. It is the craft of Satan to speak of the Divine law as uncertain or unreasonable, and so to draw people to sin it is our wisdom to keep up a firm belief of God's command, and a hig respect for it. Has God said, Ye shall not lie, nor take his name in vain, nor be drunk, &c.? Yes, I am sure he has, and it is well said and by his grace I will abide by it. It was Eve's weakness to ente into this talk with the serpent: she might have perceived by his question, that he had no good design, and should therefore have starte back. Satan teaches men first to doubt, and then to deny. He promise advantage from their eating this fruit. He aims to make the discontented with their present state, as if it were not so good as it might be, and should be. No condition will of itself bring content unless the mind be brought to it. He tempts them to seek preferment, a if they were fit to be gods. Satan ruined himself by desiring to be like the Most High, therefore he sought to infect our first parent with the same desire, that he might ruin them too. And still the devi draws people into his interest, by suggesting to them hard thoughts of God, and false hopes of advantage by sin. Let us, therefore, alway think well of God as the best good, and think ill of sin as the wors evil: thus let us resist the devil, and he will flee from us.
Original Hebrew
כי 3588 ידע 3045 אלהים 430 כי 3588 ביום 3117 אכלכם 398 ממנו 4480 ונפקחו 6491 עיניכם 5869 והייתם 1961 כאלהים 430 ידעי 3045 טוב 2896 ורע׃ 7451
