Category:Flaming Sword

When Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden, "Cherubims, and a, turning every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.'''

3:15. I will put enmities between you and the woman, and your seed and her seed: she shall crush your head, and you shall lie in wait for her heel.

She shall crush. . .Ipsa, the woman; so diverse of the fathers read this place, conformably to the Latin: others read it ipsum, viz., the seed. The sense is the same: for it is by her seed, Jesus Christ, that the woman crushes the serpent's head.

3:16. To the woman also he said: I will multiply your sorrows, and your conceptions: in sorrow shalt you bring forth children, and you shalt be under your husband's power, and he shall have dominion over you.

3:17. To Adam he said: Because you have hearkened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded you, that you should not eat, cursed is the earth in your work: with labor and toil shalt you eat thereof all the days of your life.

3:18. Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to you, and you shalt eat the herbs of the earth.

3:19. In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread till you return to the earth out of which you were taken: for dust you are, and into dust you shall return.

3:20. Adam called the name of his wife Eve: because she was the mother of all the living.

3:21. The Lord God made for Adam and his wife garments of skins, and clothed them.

3:22. The Lord God said: Behold Adam is become as one of us, knowing good and evil: now therefore lest perhaps he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever.

Behold Adam, etc. . .This was spoken by way of reproaching him with his pride, in affecting a knowledge that might make him like to God.

3:23. The Lord God sent him out of the paradise of pleasure, to till the earth from which he was taken.

3:24. He cast out Adam: and placed before the paradise of pleasure Cherubims, and a, turning every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.