22And the LORD 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 for ever:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. …
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 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 prefer…
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