Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 3:22-23
"And Jehovah God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever - therefore, Jehovah God sent him forth from the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken."Any thought that man in his fallen state constituted any kind of threat to the supremacy of the Creator should be rejected. It would have been an unqualified disaster if man had eaten of the tree of life and... read more
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 3:22
Behold. Figure of speech Asterismos ( App-6 ). man. Hebrew the man, Adam. good. Hebrew. tov = general good. Compare Genesis 1:4 , Genesis 1:10 , Genesis 1:12 , Genesis 1:18 , Genesis 1:21 , Genesis 1:25 ; Genesis 6:2 .Deuteronomy 1:25 ; Deuteronomy 3:25 .Judges 8:2 .Esther 1:11 .Proverbs 8:11 .Ecclesiastes 7:14 ; Ecclesiastes 11:7 . Verse ends with Fig, Aposiopesis = Sudden silence, emphasizing the result as being unspeakable. live for ever clearly shows the nature of man, read more