Full Gen 2:17 and 3:1–6. Opposing-view treatment: immediate spiritual death with delayed physical death (Augustine, Calvin); Hebrew moth tamuth as inceptive/emphatic (various Reformed); covenantal death as separation from God (Puritan). All three readings are set out at full strength.
Tree of Knowledge: and "did they die that day?"
Gen 2:17's death-warning vs. Gen 5:5's 930 years.
Primary passage:Genesis 2:17 →
Commentary
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Key passage
Typological connection
The trees thread runs from Eden (life barred) through the cross (curse borne on a tree, Gal 3:13) to the New Jerusalem (life multiplied, twelve fruits monthly).