...deal of unkindness and ill will from those who hated their Master and themselves. Thus it will ever be between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent: they who live godly in Christ Jesus will ever be sure to suffer persecution (2 Tim. iii. 12). Christ...

...commenced between the kingdom of Christ, and the kingdom of the devil, among men ; war is proclaimed between the seed of the woman, and the seed of the serpent, the devil." Rev. xii. 17. Benson's Commentary on Genesis, 3d Chap. But were we to conclude, that the...

...this belongs to the perfection of it; but enmity to the very constitution of it; I will put enmity between the seed of the woman, and the seed of the serpent. He can at the best but half sin, and scarcely that: he could not commit sin very freely before, because...

...now, he that is born after the flesh persecutes him that is born after the Spirit. The original enmity between the Seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent continues to operate. But praised be the God of grace, who has counted us worthy to suffer shame for...

...this belongs to the perfection of it; but enmity to the very constitution of it ; I will put enmity between the seed of the woman, and the seed of the serpent. He can at the best but half sin, and scarcely that: he could not commit sin very freely before, because...

...liable to assault. It takes for granted the certainty of this opposition. There exists a mutual enmity between " the seed of the woman" and the seed of the serpent. This was predicted, in the first age of man, in the first promise of grace ; and every age has manifested,...

...£. The Church in the Different Dispensations. The Church existed from the moment that God set enmity between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent, but it did not always assume the same form. 1. IN THE PATRIARCHAL PERIOD. In the patriarchal period...

...cases. The curse of husband-dominion, then, has not fallen upon woman as a sex. There was to be enmity between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent (ie, their offspring) as the third part of woman's curse ; but we find no evidence that this part of...

...the book of Genesis. "Gen. 3:15 places all subsequent events in the light of the tremendous battle between the Seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent, between Christ coming into the world and Satan the ruler of this world, and it places all events in...

...temperate? 2. The Ministry of natural Men is uncomfortable to gracious Souls. The Enmity that is put between the Seed of the Woman and the Seed of the Serpent, will now and then be creating Jarrs: And no wonder; for as it was of old, so it is now, He that was...