 | William Howard Van Doren - 1872 - 654 pages
...price for it, never obtain it. The soul originally was filled with longings after immortality. " Lest he put forth his hand, and take of the tree of life." Gen. iii. 22. All nations sigh for the golden age, which ever appears to belong to the past. Man can... | |
 | John Quarry - 1873 - 664 pages
...destroyed life itself at the same time. Moreover, the apprehension expressed at the close, — " Lest he put forth his hand, and take of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever," — seems to imply his natural mortality. It is as if, while he was naturally mortal,... | |
 | Francis Athow West, F H. West - 1873 - 360 pages
...by which the spiritual nature of Adam was to be perpetuated and perfected, is restored, and man may put forth his hand, and take of the Tree of Life, and eat, and live for ever. No flaming sword turning every way, guards the access. On the contrary, it is now... | |
 | 1873 - 484 pages
...and hearts open to the fountain of truth. The Bible that begins by making God apprehensive lest ntfan put forth his hand and take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever, ends with the entreaty, " The spirit and the bride say, ' Come.' And let him that... | |
 | Burlington B. Wale - 1876 - 276 pages
...sorrow and in sin, his own life, and that of his posterity. And therefore the Lord said, " And now lest he put forth his hand, and take of the tree of life, and eat and live for ever," &c. All organic beings are, in the very nature of the case, subject to the law... | |
 | James Barr Walker - 1877 - 342 pages
...on this subject seems plain. It is written in the symbolic history of creation, "And now, lest man put forth his hand, and take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever: therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden, to till the ground... | |
 | Heaven - 1878 - 318 pages
...immortality ; for after his transgression, the Lord sent him forth from the garden of Eden, ' lest he should put forth his hand, and take of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever ' — (Gen. iii. 22). No mortal man has had access to this living tree since that... | |
 | Aaron Walker - 1880 - 506 pages
...After man had sinned, with the knowledge of good and evil, he was master of his position, and now, lest he " put forth his hand and take of the tree of life, and eat and live forever," subjected to shame, to torment, to anguish and tribulation, mental suffering, a... | |
 | Enoch Pond - 1881 - 668 pages
...out from the garden of Eden, and debarred from entering it; and all for the specific reason : " Lest he put forth his hand, and take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever." S. — A striking confirmation of the explanation which you have given ! I wonder... | |
 | Robert Jamieson - 1884 - 1032 pages
...of us ! formed at first in our image to know good and evil, how sad his condition now. and now lest he put forth his hand and take of the tree Of life — This tree being a pledge of that immortal life with which obedience should be rewarded, he lost,... | |
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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... 
