Genesis 3:23-24

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 3:22-24

Sentence being passed upon the offenders, we have here execution, in part, done upon them immediately. Observe here, I. How they were justly disgraced and shamed before God and the holy angels, by the ironical upbraiding of them with the issue of their enterprise: ?Behold, the man has become as one of us, to know good and evil! A goodly god he makes! Does he not? See what he has got, what preferments, what advantages, by eating forbidden fruit!? This was said to awaken and humble them, and to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 3:23

Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden ,.... Gave him orders to depart immediately; sent or put him away as a man does his wife, when he divorces her; or as a prince banishes a rebellious subject: for how long Adam was in the garden see Gill on Psalm 49:12 , however, he did not send him to hell at once, as he did the apostate angels, but to till the ground, from whence he was taken : either the earth in general, out of which he was made, and to which he must... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 3:24

So he drove out the man ,.... Being unwilling to go out upon the orders given, some degree of force was used, or power exerted, in some way or other, to oblige him to depart; the word it is expressed by is used of divorces: there was a conjugal relation between God and man, the covenant between them had the nature of a matrimonial contract; which covenant man broke, though he was an husband to him, by committing idolatry, that is, spiritual adultery, not giving credit to him, but believing... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 3:24

So he drove out the man - Three things are noted here: God's displeasure against sinful man, evidenced by his expelling him from this place of blessedness; Man's unfitness for the place, of which he had rendered himself unworthy by his ingratitude and transgression; and, His reluctance to leave this place of happiness. He was, as we may naturally conclude, unwilling to depart, and God drove him out. He placed at the east - מכדם mikkedem , or before the garden of Eden, before... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 3:23

Verse 23 23.Therefore the Lord God sent him forth (217) Here Moses partly prosecutes what he had said concerning the punishment inflicted on man, and partly celebrates the goodness of God, by which the rigour of his judgment was mitigated. God mercifully softens the exile of Adam, by still providing for him a remaining home on earth, and by assigning to him a livelihood from the culture — although the labourious culture — of the ground; for Adam thence infers that the Lord has some care for... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 3:9-24

The word of God in the moral chaos. These verses bring before us very distinctly the elements of man's sinful state, and of the redemptive dispensation of God which came out of it by the action of his brooding Spirit of life upon the chaos. I. THE WORD OF GOD ADDRESSED TO THE PERSONAL CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW WORLD . "The Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? " Before that direct intercourse between the Spirit of God and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 3:20-24

First fruits of the promise. I. FAITH ( Genesis 3:20 ). The special significance of Adam's renaming his wife at this particular juncture in his history is best discerned when the action is regarded as the response of his faith to the antecedent promise of the woman's seed. 1. It is the place of faith to succeed, and not to precede, the promise. Faith being, in its simplest conception, belief in a testimony, the testimony must ever take precedence of the faith. "In whom ye also... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 3:23-24

Therefore (literally, and) the Lord God sent (or cast , shalach in the Piel conveying the ideas of force and displeasure; cf. Deuteronomy 21:14 ; 1 Kings 9:7 ) him forth from the garden of Eden to till the ground ( i.e. the soil outside of paradise, which had been cursed for his sake) whence he was taken . Vide Genesis 3:19 . So (and) he drove out the man (along with his guilty partner); and he placed (literally, caused to dwell) at the east of the garden of Eden... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 3:24

The dispensation of redemption. Notice— I. THE MERCY WITH JUDGMENT . He did not destroy the garden; he did not root up its trees and flowers. II. He " DROVE OUT THE MAN " into his curse that he might pray for and seek for and, at last, by Divine grace, obtain once more his forfeited blessing. III. AT THE EAST OF THE GARDEN HE PLACED THE CHERUBIMS AND THE FLAMING SWORD TURNING EVERY WAY , emblems of his natural and moral governments, which, as they... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Genesis 3:22-24

- XVII. The Execution24. כרוּב kerûb ברך in Aramaic: “carve, plow”; Persian: “grip, grasp.” This word occurs about eighty-seven times in the Hebrew scriptures; in sixty of which it refers to carved or embroidered figures; in twenty-two to the living being in the vision of Ezekiel Ezekiel 10:0; in two figuratively to the king of Tyre Ezekiel 28:14, Ezekiel 28:16; in two to a being on which the Lord is poetically described as riding 2 Samuel 22:11; Psalms 18:11; and in the present passage... read more

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