To hide their outward nakedness, they betake themselves to the leaves of the garden. This, as a great writer observes, was "to cover, not to cure." And to what else is all the labour of sinners directed? Is it not to conceal the bad, and to appear what they are not, that they are continually studying and contriving? And being enabled to impose upon one another, they with little difficulty impose upon themselves, "trusting in themselves that they are righteous, and despising others." But all is mere show, and when God comes to summon them to his bar will prove of no account.
Andrew Fuller — Expository Discourses on the Book of Genesis, Discourse on the Fall of Man (Gen. iii.), in The Complete Works of the Rev. Andrew Fuller, Vol. II (Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1845; from the third London edition), p. 12
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