24So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
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And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.
Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:
And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat. …
And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces. …
Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin. …
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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