Arcana Coelestia (Potts) n. 279

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279. All these verses then, taken in a series, involve that the sensuous part averted itself from the celestial (verse 14); that the Lord would come into the world for the purpose of reuniting them (verse 15); that combat arose in consequence of the external man averting itself (verse 16); whence resulted misery (verse 17); condemnation (verse 18); and at length hell (verse 19). These things followed in succession in that church, from the fourth posterity down to the flood. ______________________________ 20. And the man [homo] called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living. 21. And Jehovah God made for the man and for his wife coats of skin, and clothed them. 22. And Jehovah God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, knowing good and evil; and now lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of lives, and eat, and live to eternity, 23. Therefore Jehovah God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. 24. And He cast out the man; and He made to dwell from the east toward the garden of Eden cherubim, and the flame of a sword turning itself, to keep the way of the tree of lives.


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