less than God Himself is being extended to Eve. Unlike Christ (Phil. 2:6), Eve and Adam did attempt to gain equality with God by means of robbery and preemptive seizure. On theological grounds, the serpent’s promise can be put in compellingly equivalent terms: ye shall be sovereign! Satan was extending to man the promise of sovereignty, of man’s lordship over himself. Lordship and sovereignty are virtually synonymous: the attributes of one are the attributes of the other. To be sovereign is to be
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