“Some have said the woman [i.e., Eve, Genesis 3:3, rlv], by her answer, added to the words of the Lord, in His commandment, for there is no record of His having told them not to touch the tree. However, this is hardly acceptable. If the Lord did not expressly command them to touch the tree, it was, nevertheless, clearly implied. If they should not eat it, neither should they touch it. And if the woman here lied to the serpent she had already sinned, and it was not necessary for her to continue to the taking of the forbidden fruit to have fallen from her state of innocency.”
J. W. Griffith, Lectures on Genesis, Henderson, TX: 1984, p. 9
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