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verses 8-14 Figure of speech Parecbasis. App-6.
garden. This garden may be additional to Gen_1:11, Gen_1:12; Gen_2:4, Gen_2:5 -. That creation concerns the "plants of the field" (1st occ). This may have been a special planting, and lost when the garden and Eden were lost. Note the three gardens: (1) Eden, death in sin; (2) Gethsemane, death for sin; (3) Sepulchre, death to sin.
eastward in Eden = "in Eden, eastward".
Eden. In the cuneiform texts = the plain of Babylonia, known in the Accado-Sumerian as edin = "the fertile plain", called by its inhabitants Edinu. In Hebrew. eden, Septuagint paradise. Occurs Gen_2:8, Gen_2:10, Gen_2:15; Gen_3:23, Gen_3:24; Gen_4:16. Isa_51:3. Eze_28:13; Eze_31:9, Eze_31:16, Eze_31:18, Eze_31:18; Eze_36:35. Joe_2:3.