STUDY GUIDE FOR READING ASSIGNMENT 2

Calvin's Commentary on Genesis, chapter 2

REVIEW QUESTIONS:

1. According to Calvin, what does it mean that God "rested" on the seventh day?

2. How does Calvin interpret the statement in Genesis 2:7, that God "breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul"?

3. According to Calvin, what was the significance of forbidding man to eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil?

4. What did God say was “not good” after he had created man?

5. What is Calvin’s understanding of the main reason God created woman?

6. How does Calvin understand the significance of the fact that God brought the woman to man?

7. What does Calvin believe is strictly prohibited by the statement: “They shall be one flesh.”?