Genèse 3:2

2 Et la femme répondit au serpent: Nous mangeons du fruit des arbres du jardin;

Genèse 3:2 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 3:2

And the woman said unto the serpent
Or to him that spoke in the serpent, which she might take to be a messenger from heaven, a holy angel: had she known who it was, she might be chargeable with imprudence in giving an answer, and carrying on a conversation with him; and yet even supposing this, she might have a good design in her answer; partly to set the matter in a true light, and assert what was truth; and partly to set forth the goodness and liberality of God, in the large provision he had made, and the generous grant he had given them: from this discourse of Eve and the serpent, no doubt Plato ^F7 had his notion of the first men discoursing with beasts: we may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden;
of all and every one of them, which is to be understood, excepting the one after mentioned; so far are we from being debarred from eating of any, which the speech of the Serpent might imply, that they were allowed to eat of what they pleased, but one.

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 In Politico, ut supra, (apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 12.) c. 14.

Genèse 3:2 In-Context

1 Or, le serpent était le plus fin de tous les animaux des champs, que l'Éternel Dieu avait faits; et il dit à la femme: Quoi! Dieu aurait dit: Vous ne mangerez point de tout arbre du jardin!

2 Et la femme répondit au serpent: Nous mangeons du fruit des arbres du jardin;

3 Mais quant au fruit de l'arbre qui est au milieu du jardin, Dieu a dit: Vous n'en mangerez point, et vous n'y toucherez point, de peur que vous ne mouriez.

4 Alors le serpent dit à la femme: Vous ne mourrez nullement;

5 Mais Dieu sait qu'au jour où vous en mangerez, vos yeux s'ouvriront, et vous serez comme des dieux, connaissant le bien et le mal.