1. In regard of the kind of sin it was equal in both: They both had an equal pride, an equal aspiring to be like God: For in all probability, Eve gave not her Husband the fruit to eat, without acquainting him with the reasons which moved her to eat it, as also the advantage she expected from it. And God chargeth this aspiring humour upon the man, Gen. 3.22. The Man, [Greek or Hebrew], is become like one of us. Both of them therefore embraced the temptation as it was directed, and swallowed the fruit, with an expectation to be like, not the Angels, (as some think, from Gen. 3.5. You shall be as Gods, Elohim;) but like God himself, as appears by v. 22. in that Ironical speech, where the Lord God Jehovah saith, The Man is become like one of us. They both believed the Serpent, both broke the command in eating the fruit, both were guilty of this aspiring Ambition. Some indeed think Eve ate twice of the fruit, once before the Serpent, and the other time when she gave her Husband, Gen. 3.6. She did eat, and gave to her Husband with her, and he did eat*. But that is not so clear in the Text.
1. In regard of the kind of sin it was equal in both: They both had an equal pride, an equal aspiring to be like God: For in all probability, Eve gave not her Husband the fruit to eat, without acquainting him with the reasons which mov'd her to eat it, as also the advantage she expected from it. And God chargeth this aspiring humour upon the man, Gen. 3.22. The Man, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, is become like one of us. Both of them therefore embrac'd the temptation as it was directed, and swallowed the fruit, with an expectation to be like, not the Angels, (as some think, from Gen. 3.5. You shall be as Gods, Elohim;) but like God himself, as appears by v. 22. in that Ironical speech, where the Lord God Jehovah saith, The Man is become like one of us. They both believed the Serpent, both broke the command in eating the fruit, both were guilty of this aspiring Ambition. Some indeed think Eve ate twice of the fruit, once before the Serpent, and the other time when she gave her Husband, Gen. 3.6. She did eat, and gave to her Husband with her, and he did eat*. But that is not so clear in the Text.
- *Mariana in loc.
