Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 3:5

5. For God doth know , that in▪ the day ye [illegible: 1+ letters]at▪ thereof, then your eyes shall be opened : and ye▪ shall be as Gods , knowing Good and Evil .

If you would have the whole truth of the matter, and God's design in that Prohibition, it is only this.

He knoweth that you shall be so far from dying, that ye shall certainly be entred into a new, and more noble kind of Life, and the eyes of your minds, which are now shut as to the knowledge of a World of things shall then be opened, and see things more fully and distinctly.

Or, as God, like unto God himself in the largeness of your knowledge.

As the very name that God hath put upon the Tree may teach you. But this is a priviledge, of which, for divers causes best known to himself, some of which your own reason will easily guess at, he would not have you partake of.