![]() Satan told her a lie so she was deceived, yes, but she need not have believed that lie. The sinful thoughts were outwardly expressed in the sinful action.īut let’s go back a step further. It was that lustful desire that lead to the outward action. When she began to covet the fruit she was sinning in her heart and mind by coveting (Exodus 20:17) what was forbidden. “For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh (“the tree was good for food”), and the lust of the eyes (“it was pleasant to the eyes”), and the pride of life (“desired to make one wise”), is not of the Father, but is of the world.” (1 John 2:16) “… 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, …” (Gen 3:6a) Something was already amiss in Eve’s thinking before she took that fateful bite: “… out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.” (Matt 12:34) “… she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her and he did eat.” (Gen 3:6b)īut that only reflects what is happening in the sink representing the heart or mind with its thoughts and intents. The sinful acts (the mess on the floor), as we apply it in this case, represent Eve eating the fruit. Let’s see where that fits in with this illustration used many times on this website. She broke God’s express command – that could be classed as a breach. Many would identify the first sin of humanity as Eve’s eating of the forbidden fruit. Let’s identify the first occurrence of a breach in the history of mankind remembering that a breach can be understood as sin – a breach of the law of God – or as its results. To repair what God has done by calamity and judgmentīut could the “repairer of the breach” be referring to a breach with a deeper meaning than any of those options?.To repair the division between Jews and Gentiles.So we have a few possibilities for what it means to repair the breach: ![]() And there is, of course, the popular option that it refers simply to a physical restoration as in the temple or wall of the city. ![]() The quotations from Bible commentaries listed at the top of the breach definition page suggest that repairing the breach refers to fixing things God has done. That is referring to the breach or divide between Jews and Gentiles. ![]() “… and thou shalt be called the repairer of the breach, and the restorer of paths to dwell in that is, the church and her builders, that shall be of her, shall be so called the Jews and Gentiles will be converted in great numbers, and coalesce in the same Gospel church state, and so the breach between them will be repaired.” (Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible) Sin can certainly be understood to be a breach. “Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.” (Isa 30:12-13) What is the breach in the case of Isaiah 58:12? Many would understand it to be referring to the sins of man. The meaning of the word “breach” as used in the Bible is examined here and an example, the breach of Uzzah here. “And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.” (Isaiah 58:12) ![]()
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