Spurgeon’s Sense
“I will put enmity between thee and the woman.” satan counted on man’s descendants being his confederates, but God would break up this covenant with hell, and raise up a seed which should war against the satanic power. Thus we have here God’s first declaration that He will set up a rival kingdom to oppose the tyranny of sin and satan, and that He will create in the hearts of a chosen seed an enmity against evil, so that they shall fight against it, and with many a struggle and pain shall overcome the prince of darkness. The divine Spirit has abundantly achieved this purpose of the Lord, combating the fallen angel by a glorious Man: making man to be satan’s foe and conqueror. Henceforth the woman was to hate evil, and doubtless she did so. She had abundant cause for so doing, and as often as she thought of him, it would be with infinite regret that she could have listened to his deceitful talk. The woman’s seed has also evermore had enmity against the evil one. I mean not the carnal seed, for Paul tells us, ‘They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.’ The carnal seed are not meant, but the spiritual seed, even Christ Jesus and those who are in Him. Wherever you meet these, they hate the serpent with a perfect hatred.”