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Gen_2:8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Ver. 8. And the Lord God planted.] Had planted (to wit, on the third day, when he made trees) for man’s pleasure, a garden or paradise in Eden, whence çäïíç , in the upper part of Chaldea, whereabout Babel was founded. It was destroyed by the deluge; the place indeed remained, but not so the pleasantness of the place, the rose fell and remained thorny. {cecidit rosa, mansit spina} And yet that country is still very fruitful, returning, if Herodotus and Pliny {a} may be believed, the seed beyond credulity.
He put the man whom he had formed.] And formed him not far from the garden, say the Hebrews; to mind him that be was not here to set up his rest, but to "wait till his change should come."
{a} Déçêïóéá ìåí ôï ðáñáðáí áðïäéäïé , Herod., l. i. Pliny, l. vi. c. 26. Donec a spe ad speciem transiret