b Socalled either ſymbolically,and facramentally,becauſe ir was a ſign and ſeal of that Life which man had received from God,and of his continual enjoyment of it upon condirion of his ob<dience: Or, effe&tively, becauſe God hath planred in it a {ſingular vertue tor the ſuppo:r of Nature, prolongation of Life, and the preven- tion of all Diſeaſes, Infirmitjes and Decays through age. * Or, v1thir the Garden,as Tyrus is ſaid to be inthe midſt of the Seas, Exzek. 28. 2. Though, it was but juſt within it.c So called with reſpe&;,cither 1. To God, who thereby would prove and make kaown mans. 00d or Evil,his Obedience and Happineſs, or his Rebellion and Mitery Or rather, 2. To Man, who by the uſe of it would know co his coſt, hov- great & good things he did enjoy and mighthave kept by his Obudience, and how evil and bitter the fruirs of his Oifobedience were to himſelf and all his poſterity. Soit ſeems to * be an 1ronica] denomination, 9. d. You thirſted after more know- edge, which alſo the Devil promiſed you, and you have got what you defired ; more knowledge, even dear bought Experience.
io Anda River 4 wentout of Ede: e to waterthe Garden, and from thence þ it was parted, and became into four Heads f. |
a Or, Rivers,by a common Enallage. e The Countrey in which Paradite was ; where thoſe Rivers either aroſe from one ſpring or met rogecther in one Channel]. + (7, e. ) From the Garden. fe ws divided into four principal Rivers. Concerning which there arc now many diſputes. But it is no wonder if the riſe and ſcitu- ation of theſe Rivers be not now certainly known, becauſe of the great changes, which in fo Jong time| might happen in this, as well as in other Rivers, partly by Earth-quakes, and principally by the general Deluge. And yet Euphrates and Tigris, the chief of theſe Rivers, whereof the other two are branches, are diſcovered by ſome learned men, to have one and the ſame original orſpring, and thar in a moſt pleaſant part of Armenia, where they conceive Paradiſe was. See my Latin Synopſis.
1: The name of the hirit zs Pi/wn g ; that is it which compaileth 4 the whole Land of Hevilah i, where there is Gold.
z An eminent branch of the River 7jz-is,probably that called by others Paſi-tigris,or Piſo-tigrrs, þ 7. e. With many windings & turn- ings paſſed thorough ; as this word is uſed, 5oſ. 15. 3. Mat: 23. I5. ; Either that which 1s in thoſe parts of 4rabia which is rownrlts Meſoporamia, fo called from Havilah the iſſue of Cham, Gen: 10. 7. Or that which is nigh Perſia, and in the borders of haia, ſo called from another Havila/z of the poſterity of Serv, Gen: 10. 29. Totei- ther of thefe following the deſcription agrees well.
12 And the Guid of that Land z *good &: there is *2 Chron, Bde!lium /, and the Onyx-ſtone ws, IS $6
k 7. e. Better than ordinary. / Which ſignifies either a precious goumie, of which ſee Numb: 11. 70.0r| Gems and Pearls. Once for all obſerve, that many of the Hebrew words or names of Stones Trecs,Birds,and Beaſts,are even to the Hebrew Do@orsand others borh ancient and modern Interpreters, of uncertain fignification and that withour any conſiderable inconvenience tous who are free from the obligations which the Jews were formerly under of procuring ſuch ſtones, and abſtaining in their Diet from ſuch Beaſts and Birds as then were ſuthcienrly known ro them; and if any were doubtful, they had one fafe courſe, to abſtain from them. 2 A kind of precious ſtone, of which ſee Exod: 25. 7. and 0 20.
:3 And thename of the ſecond River is Gihon y:
The ſame zs it that compalleth the whole Land of + Es + cub. hi Pia 0. » Not that River in the Land of 7/2! ſo called, 1 Kings x. 33. 2 Chron« 32. 39. But another of the ſ\ime name, which in He- brew ſignifies, the branci of a greater River : Here it is a branch either of Euphrates, 2s moſt think, or of Tigris,as ſome late Writers conceive. o Not that Countrey in Africa above Ezypr, commonly ſo called ; bureither Arabia, which in Scripture is frequently called Cujb or Eth:opia. Of which ſee the Notes upon 2 Kings 19.9. 70b 28. 19. Exek. 29. 10. and 30.8, 9g. Heb. ;. 7. or rather a Coun- rrey adjoyning to india, and Perſia, with which Cuſh is joyned Ezck. 38.5. See alſo 1/2. 11.11. and Exek., 27, 10+ And about which place the Ethiopians are ſeated by Herod, 1. 7. Homer, Heſiod, and os thers. Of which ſee my Latin Synopſis. 14 And the name of the third River is Hiddekel p Thar zs ix which goeth*toward the Eaſt of Aſſrie.And * Or, £2/- the fourth River ;zs Euphrates. ward to p (#.e. ) Tygris, oran eminent branch of it. See Dan. 10. 4. Ayia. ' 15 And the LORD God took F the man, and put + Or, him 9 into the Garden of Ede, to * dreſs it r, and to Adam. keep it s.* Or, WE, q (i.e ) Commanded and enclined him to go. r.(r e.) To So np : prune, dreſs, and order the Trees and Herbs of it. 5s From the 3* ©3* annoyance of Beaits,which being unreaſonable Creatures, and al- lowed the uſe of Herbs, mighreafily ſpoil the beauty of it.
16 And the LORD Ged commanded the Man ?, + Heb. ſaying, Of every Tree of the Garden | thou mayeſt Eating hou freely cat #, , " eat, 5 An
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Chap. 11: t And the Woman too ( as appears both from the permiſſion for eating Herbs and + ruits given to her,together with her Husband, Gen. 1. 28, 29 and from Gen.z. 1, 2, 3.and from Eves punitkment } and rhar either immediarly, or by 44am whom God enjoyned to F inform her thereof. « Without offence to me, or hurt to thy ſelf. 23 The words in Hebrew have the form ofa command, but are on- ly a permitfion or indulgence, as I Cor. 19. 25, s 5 17, But of the Tree of the Knowledge of good and k evil, thou ſhalr nor ear of it; For in the day that
thou catelt thereof, + thou ſhalt ſurely dye x.
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