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  • From: Revdpickrel AT wmconnect.com
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Fwd: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3:15 and order of ideas
  • Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 17:00:51 EST

In a message dated 12/21/2004 3:58:39 PM Central Standard Time, Revdpickrel
writes:


> In a message dated 12/21/2004 4:14:27 AM Central Standard Time,
> sesamox AT hotmail.com writes:
>
>
> >> Gen 3:15
>> "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed
>> and
>> her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."
>>
>> I remember having heard when I was a child that though the chronological
>> order of events is inverted (first the serpent "bruises" the woman's seed
>> "heel" and then the Seed bruises the serpent head destroing it), in Hebrew
>> sometimes the most important event is mentioned first, and that's why the
>> order of events in this verse is inverted.
>> Was there any truth in that statement?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Sergio
>>
>
> Howdy Sergio,
>
> "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and
> her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel." Since
> when does the woman have the seed? The male provides the seed and the
> woman
> provides the egg. This, Genesis 3:15, is the first promise of a virgin
> birth....a pregnancy where the woman provides both the egg and the seed????
>
> Nothing is impossible with God.
>
> Doug Pickrel
> Tejas Valley
>


Doug Pickrel
Tejas Valley
San Antonio, TX



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