And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
Pause over this verse, and remark the fatal mean by which, as the Apostle saith, sin hath entered into the world, and death by sin. Romans 5:12. In this transgression all our nature was involved, and necessarily, as in the rectitude of our first Parents, the whole race would have been interested; so in their fall, the whole were condemned. See those scriptures, which so fully prove the fact, and explain the cause. Romans 5:12-19; 1 Corinthians 15:22