Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Scott McAliley" <scottanderin1 AT hotmail.com>]

David,
   I appreciate your response, and the quote.   I have heard this 
explanation of “in the day” before, and I think it is a good one.  And it 
may be all that was intended by what God said.  But I don’t think we can 
escape the fact that they were also banned from the one tree which God said 
would give them eternal life, were they to eat from it.  And if you lose 
access to life, you either gain death, or maintain your course with it(as I 
have proposed).  And as far as we know, the banishment happened in the same 
24 hour day.  So perhaps both were intended.  It wouldn’t be the last time 
in scripture where there would be dual meanings.  Either way, I think either 
one or both of these are very acceptable explanations, and I am confused as 
to why the verse causes a conflict in believing that God does what he says 
he will do.

Scott McAliley


David had written:
Dear Scott,

My commentary here is indirectly related to your inquiry and you may or may 
not consider it as you evaluate the more specific replies to your query. 
Anton Chekov wrote, “No psychologist should pretend to understand what he 
does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and 
understand nothing.” I contend Chekov's quote is analogous to the 
"experts" you allude to. At any rate, I will await the responses you seek 
with interest but in the mean time let me suggest that a day is 1000 years 
for Hashem and 1000 years is a day. Thus, Adam & Hawaah (Eve) did die within 
a "day" as neither reached 100 years of life. Neither do we know at what age 
Hashem created them.

I hope you don't mind the slightly off-target remark too much.

Shalom,
David Fenton

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