 | Titus Knight - 1766 - 480 pages
...countenance be denied. 2d. Another reafon why Adam was driven from the garden, was, left he Jhould put forth his hand, and take of the tree of life, and eat and live for ever. We do not find that Adam before he finned was prohibited the fruit of this lifegiving... | |
 | Church of England - 1796 - 596 pages
...facrament ; though the words faid after Adam's lin, as the reafon of driving -him out of Paradife, left he put forth his hand and take of the Tree of Life ', and eat, and live far ever, feem to import that there was a phyfical virtue in the tree, that could fo fortify... | |
 | Alexander Macwhorter - 1803 - 488 pages
...wickedness and disobedience, God would not suffer him to taste of the tree of life. " Lest he should put forth his hand " and take of the tree of life, and live forever, he is expelled from " thc garden of perfect pleasure and felicity. So God drove out "... | |
 | James Dana - 1806 - 518 pages
...Creator. After his fall, this tree was guarded every way by cherubims and a flaming fword, left be Jhoiild put forth his hand', and take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever. Death hath reigned from Adam to this day over all mankind, with but two exceptions... | |
 | 1808 - 524 pages
...God said, "Behold Adam was made like one of us to know good and evil. And now perhaps lie may stretch forth his hand and take of the tree of life and eat, so shall he live for •23 ever." So the Lord God sent him out of the garden of pleasure to till the... | |
 | Stephen West - 1809 - 66 pages
...mi'ist of the garden. Yea, it manifestly appears from God's expelling him from the garden lest he should put forth his hand and take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever, that he did, in fact, understand it. If our first parents understood what was to... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1813 - 662 pages
...therefore after his sin God would not suffer him to taste of the tree of life. Gen. iii. 22, 24. " Now lest he put forth his hand and take of the tree of life, and live for ever, — God drove out the man from the garden." And we may suppose this tree of life did... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - 1815 - 600 pages
...when man was fallen, yet the tree of life had stiil the same virtue : Accordingly it is said, Lest he put forth his hand, and take of the tree of life, and eat and live for ever ; therefore the Lord God sent liim forth out of the garden of Eden; and he drove... | |
 | John Henry Hobart (bp. of New York.) - 1824 - 526 pages
...which wasthe mean and pledge of everlasting life. " Now," says their offended Maker, " lest the man put forth his hand, and take of the tree of life, and eat and live for ever ; therefore the Lord 'God sent him forth from the garden of Eden°." Man was doomed... | |
 | 1826 - 104 pages
...of a God, should live, like one, if he eat of the tree of life — • " Therefore lest man should put forth his hand, and take of the tree of life and eat and live for ever. Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden." The God of Moses,... | |
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become as one of us, to know good and evil ; and " now, lest he put forth his hand and take of the " tree of life and eat and live forever... 
