Genesis 3:23-24

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 3:24

Genesis 3:24. So he drove out the man This signified the exclusion of him and his guilty race from that communion with God which was the bliss and glory of paradise. But whither did he send him when he turned him out of Eden? He might justly have chased him out of the world, Job 18:18; but he only chased him out of the garden: he might justly have cast him down to hell, as the angels that sinned were, when they were shut out from the heavenly paradise, 2 Peter 2:4; but man was only... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Genesis 3:1-24

Human disobedience (3:1-24)Since human beings were made in God’s image, and since God was unlimited, the first human couple soon showed that they too wanted to be unlimited. They had to remember, however, that they were not God; they were only creatures made in the image of God. Just as the image of the moon on the water could not exist independently of the moon, so they could not exist independently of God. Their relationship with God contained an element of dependence, or limitation, and... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 3:23

Therefore: the object is self-evident. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 3:24

drove out. Note the failure of man under every dispensation. placed . Heb shakan, to place in a tabernacle, hence to dwell. The Cherubim placed later in the tents of Shem, Genesis 9:26 , Genesis 9:27 . Compare Genesis 4:3 , Genesis 4:7 , Genesis 4:14 , Genesis 4:16 . Cherubim. See App-41 . 1 Samuel 4:4 .Psalms 80:1 ; Psalms 99:1 . a = should be "the". every way , not natah (aside), savav (about), sug (back), panah (toward), but haphak (every way), effectually preserving the way. ... read more

James Burton Coffman

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

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 3:24

"So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden the Cherubim, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.""The Cherubim ..." These strange creatures figured prominently in the writings of the O.T. In the tabernacle they are identified with the throne of God (Exodus 37:7); depictions of them adorned the veil separating between the Holy of Holies and the Sanctuary (Exodus 36:35); they are described as having six wings in Isaiah... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 3:23

Genesis 3:23. Therefore the Lord God, &c.— The connexion of this and the following verse, according to the sense which we have given, is this: "And the Lord expelled, divorced, the man from the garden of Eden, to till the ground; and after he had expelled him, he placed cherubims, &c. at the east of the garden, to keep, or to preserve the way, and the right knowledge of it, to that tree of life, of which man, it was hoped, would hereafter eat, and live for ever." The word which we... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 3:24

Genesis 3:24. Cherubims— By these the generality of commentators understand angels. A modern writer has endeavoured to prove that they were hieroglyphical, or emblematical representations of the Trinity and the Incarnation. We shall have occasion to consider this opinion more distinctly hereafter, when we come to the cherubims in the temple. A flaming sword which turned every way— The peculiarity of this description has led commentators to a thousand imaginations. Our translation certainly... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Genesis 3:24

24. placed . . . cherbim—The passage should be rendered thus: "And he dwelt between the cherubim at the East of the Garden of Eden and a fierce fire, or Shekinah, unfolding itself to preserve the way of the tree of life." This was the mode of worship now established to show God's anger at sin and teach the mediation of a promised Saviour as the way of life, as well as of access to God. They were the same figures as were afterwards in the tabernacle and temple; and now, as then, God said, "I... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Genesis 3:4-24

1. The Garden of Eden 2:4-3:24This story has seven scenes that a change in actors, situations or activities identifies. [Note: For a different narrative analysis, see Waltke, Genesis, pp. 80-81.] Moses constructed this section of Genesis in a chiastic (palistrophic, crossing) structure to focus attention on the central scene: the Fall. The preceding scenes lead up to the Fall, and the following scenes describe its consequences. [Note: Wenham, p. 50.] A Scene 1 (narrative): God is the sole... read more

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