He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.
See the wretch he has made of himself, a god indeed! God's reproach aims to awaken shame and bring him to repentance, that he might see the fruit of sin is nothing but deceit and ruin, never what the devil promised.
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Commenting on Genesis 3:22-24
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...
The serpent is cursed above all creatures, once a model of grace, now branded with infamy and horror. The spiritual serpent, already fallen, is degraded further; his power to deceive is wholly destroyed by the offspring of those he seduced.
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Commenting on Genesis 3:14-24