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Gen_3:23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
Ver. 23. Therefore the Lord God sent him forth.] He gently dismissed him, as the word signifies; placed him over against Paradise, in the sight thereof (as Stella {a} observeth out of the Septuagint) that, by often beholding, the sorrow of his sin, might be increased, that his "eye might affect his heart" {b} {Lam_3:5} Yet, "lest he should be swallowed up of over-much sorrow," and so Satan get "an advantage of him" - for {2Co_2:7; 2Co_2:11} God is not ignorant of his devices - Christ, the promised Seed, was, by his voluntary banishment, to bring back all believers to their heavenly home; to bear them by his angels into Abraham’s bosom, and to "give them to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God." {Rev_2:7} Our whole life here is nothing else but a banishment. That we like it no worse, is because we never knew better. They that were born in hell, saith the proverb, think there’s no other heaven. The poor posterity of a banished prince take their mean condition well-aworth; Moses counts Egypt, where yet he was but a sojourner, his home; and in reference to it calls his son, born in Midian, Gershom, that is, a stranger there. Oh, how should we breathe after our heavenly home! groaning within ourselves, like those birds of paradise naturalists {c} speak of, stretching forth the neck, as the apostle’s word {d} importeth, "waiting for the adoption, even the redemption of our bodies," {Rom_8:23} glorifying God meanwhile with our spirits and bodies, devouring all difficulties, donec a spe ad speciem transeamus , till Christ, who is gone to prepare a place for us, return and say, "This day thou shalt be with me in Paradise."
{a} Stella in Luk_7:1-50.
{b} Iisdem, quibus videmus, oculis flemus.
{c} Avis Paradisi . - Gesner.
{d} áðïêáñáóïêéá , Rom_8:19.