Garden of Eden
The Garden of Eden, significant in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, the Bahá'í Faith, art, and literature; also called the Terrestrial Paradise, is the biblical paradise described in Genesis 2–3 and Ezekiel 28 and 31.
Quotes
[edit]- GENESIS, KING JAMES BIBLE
8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.- Verses 8, 9, & 10, Chapter 2, Genesis, King James Version (KJV) of the Bible. King James Bible Online (kingjamesbibleonline.org).
- BOOK 4. THE ARGUMENT
Satan now in prospect of Eden, and nigh the place where he must now attempt the bold enterprize which he undertook alone against God and Man, falls into many doubts with himself, and many passions, fear, envy, and despare; but at length confirms himself in evil, journeys on to Paradise, whose outward prospect and scituation is discribed, overleaps the bounds, sits in the shape of a Cormorant on the Tree of life, as highest in the Garden to look about him.- John Milton, Book 4, The Argument, Paradise Lost. The John Milton Reading Room (milton.host.dartmouth.edu/reading_room).
- By the garden of Eden in the Word is not meant any garden, but intelligence; and by tree is not meant any tree, but man.
- Emanuel Swendenborg, The True Christian Religion: Containing the Universal Theology of the New Church Foretold by the Lord in Daniel VII. 13, 14; and in Revelation Xxi. 1, 2, Volume 2. Boston: Massachusetts New Church Union. 1906. p. 666.
See also
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Media related to Garden of Eden on Wikimedia Commons
The dictionary definition of Garden of Eden on Wiktionary- Many translations of II Kings 19:12
- Garden of Eden. VCS - Visual Commentary on Scripture (thevcs.org).
