BSV
Reading 4: “And You Shall Be As Gods!”
Genesis
3:4-5
Commentary by St. Augustine
“The
way in which the serpent succeeded calls for careful consideration, as it
directly concerns our salvation. It was through pride that the sin was put
across--I mean, that’s the catch in the words, “You will be like gods.” What else is to be understood but a
suggestion that they should refuse to be under God any longer, but should be
their own masters without the Lord, that they should not keep a rule apparently
laid down by him out of a jealous refusal to let them be in control of their
own lives, no longer needing inner enlightenment from Him, but using their own
wits, their own 'eyes,' to tell the difference between good and evil?”
--“On
Genesis: Against the Manichees” II.22
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