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
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