The history of Genesis 3 is intended to teach us the fact that Satans sphere of activities is in the religious sphere,and not the spheres of crime or immorality; that his battlefield is not the sins arising from human depravity, but the unbelief of the human heart. We are not to look for Satans activities to-day in the newspaper press, or the police courts ; but in the pulpit, and in professors chairs. Wherever the Word of God is called in question, there we see the trail of that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan. This is why anything against the true interests of the Word of God (as being such) finds a ready admission into the news-papers of the world, and is treated as general literature. This is why anything in favour of its inspiration and Divine origin and its spiritual truth is rigidly excluded as being controversial. This why Satan is quite content that the letter of Scripture should be accepted in Genesis 3, as he himself accepted the letter of Psalm 91:11. He himself could say It is written (Matthew 4:6 ) so long as the letter of what is written could be put instead of the truth that is conveyed by it; and so long as it is miquoted or misapplied. This is his object in prepetuating the traditions of the snake and the apple, because it ministers to the acceptance of his lie, the hiding of Gods truth, the support of tradition, the jeers of the infidel, the opposition of the critics, and the stumbling of the weak in faith. E.W. Bullinger, The Companion Bible, appendix 19, The Serpent of Genesis 3
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