Lord’s Day 3, Chapter 3: The Fall of Man (2)

The last stage in the temptation and the fall of the woman naturally and inevitably followed upon the woman's acceptance of the word of the serpent by which he had plainly and boldly contradicted the Word of God. The lie had been introduced. And it had been accepted and embraced. It is in the light, or rather, in the darkness of that lie, that is, with eyes that had been darkened by the lie, that the woman now looked at the tree and passed her own judgment upon it. She saw nothing anymore of...