 Testament tells us how we lost immortality, not that we are immortal, does it ? Answer. Yes ; it tells us how we lost it. Question. Was God afraid that Adam and Eve might get back into the garden, and eat of the fruit of the tree of life ? Answer.  Lydia: Or, Filial Piety. A Novel - Page 80by John Shebbeare - 1763Full view - About this book
 | William Burdon - 1820 - 1026 pages
...them," and verK 24, represents the same Being as a cutler, for it says, " he placed a cherubim with a flaming sword, which turned every way to guard the tree of life," now if there are swords in heaven, who could make them but God? All this is impossible, and therefore... | |
 | Thomas M'Crie - 1836 - 422 pages
...Christianized ; it is the natural religion of fallen man. God found it necessary to place cherubim and a flaming sword which turned every way to guard the tree of life, and to prevent Adam from presumptuously seeking life in that garden in which he had forfeited the blessing.... | |
 | Thomas M'Crie - 1836 - 422 pages
...Christianized ; it is the natural religion of fallen man. God found it necessary to place cherubim and a flaming sword which turned every way to guard the tree of life, and to prevent Adam from presumptuously seeking life in that garden in which he had forfeited the blessing.... | |
 | Thomas Goyder - 1838 - 678 pages
...verdure, serenity, and beauty, in some happy and secluded spot, now immersed in the ocean, and that the flaming sword, which turned every way to guard the Tree of Life, was the torrid zone, or burning girdle which surrounds the globe. All these theories respecting the... | |
 | Thomas M'Crie - 1857 - 526 pages
...Christianised ; it is the natural religion of fallen man. God found it necessary to place cherubim and a flaming sword which turned every way to guard the tree of life, and to prevent Adam from presumptuously seeking life in that garden in which he had forfeited the blessing.... | |
 | Edward Madeley, Edward Madeley (Jr.) - 1883 - 768 pages
...serenity and beauty, in some happy and secluded spot now immersed in the ocean ; and thinks that the flaming sword which turned every way to guard the Tree of Life, was the torrid zone, or burning girdle which surrounds the globe. All these theories respecting the... | |
 | Samuel Watson - 1880 - 436 pages
...under every dispensation. One took his position at the entrance of the terrestrial Paradise, with a flaming sword which turned every way to guard the tree of life (Gen. iii. 24). They appeared to Abraham, and gave him and Sarah promise of a son, and ate and conversed... | |
 | Robert Green Ingersoll, Isaac Newton Baker - 1892 - 458 pages
...and eat of the fruit of the tree of life ? Answer. I suppose he was, as he placed " cher" ubims and a flaming sword which turned every " way to guard the tree of life." Question. Has. any one ever seen any of these cherubims ? Answer. Not that I know of. Question. Where... | |
 | John J. Cornell - 1893 - 210 pages
...transgress his law ; and when he did thus transgress, he placed at the east gate of the garden the flaming sword which turned every way to guard the tree of life. There was a means of entrance ; there was a means of return again provided ; and when Cain had gone... | |
 | Richard Green Moulton - 1898 - 252 pages
...cherub-prince walked in a realm of brilliance; or (2) there is some allusion to the sword [of fire] which turned every way to guard the Tree of Life in the Story of Eden, stones in this case being a metaphorical expression for flash or glitter. — I brought... | |
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