SEV Biblia, Chapter 2:10
Y salía un río de Edén para regar el huerto, y de allí se repartía en cuatro cabezas.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Genesis 2:10
Verse 10. A river went out of Eden, &c.] It would astonish an ordinary reader, who should be obliged to consult different commentators and critics on the situation of the terrestrial Paradise, to see the vast variety of opinions by which they are divided. Some place it in the third heaven, others in the fourth; some within the orbit of the moon, others in the moon itself; some in the middle regions of the air, or beyond the earth's attraction; some on the earth, others under the earth, and others within the earth; some have fixed it at the north pole, others at the south; some in Tartary, some in China; some on the borders of the Ganges, some in the island of Ceylon; some in Armenia, others in Africa, under the equator; some in Mesopotamia, others in Syria, Persia, Arabia, Babylon, Assyria, and in Palestine; some have condescended to place it in Europe, and others have contended it either exists not, or is invisible, or is merely of a spiritual nature, and that the whole account is to be spiritually understood! That there was such a place once there is no reason to doubt; the description given by Moses is too particular and circumstantial to be capable of being understood in any spiritual or allegorical way. As well might we contend that the persons of Adam and Eve were allegorical, as that the place of their residence was such. The most probable account of its situation is that given by Hadrian Reland. He supposes it to have been in Armenia, near the sources of the great rivers Euphrates, Tigris, Phasis, and Araxes. He thinks Pison was the Phasis, a river of Colchis, emptying itself into the Euxine Sea, where there is a city called Chabala, the pronunciation of which is nearly the same with that of Havilah, or hlywj Chavilah, according to the Hebrew, the vau w being changed in Greek to beta b. This country was famous for gold, whence the fable of the Golden Fleece, attempted to be carried away from that country by the heroes of Greece. The Gihon he thinks to be the Araxes, which runs into the Caspian Sea, both the words having the same signification, viz., a rapid motion. The land of Cush, washed by the river, he supposes to be the country of the Cussaei of the ancients. The Hiddekel all agree to be the Tigris, and the other river Phrat, or trp Perath, to be the Euphrates. All these rivers rise in the same tract of mountainous country, though they do not arise from one head.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 8-14 - The place fixed upon for Adam to dwell in, was not a palace, but garden. The better we take up with plain things, and the less we see things to gratify pride and luxury, the nearer we approach to innocency. Nature is content with a little, and that which is mos natural; grace with less; but lust craves every thing, and is conten with nothing. No delights can be satisfying to the soul, but thos which God himself has provided and appointed for it. Eden signifie delight and pleasure. Wherever it was, it had all desirabl conveniences, without any inconvenience, though no other house of garden on earth ever was so. It was adorned with every tree pleasant to the sight, and enriched with every tree that yielded fruit grateful to the taste and good for food. God, as a tender Father, desired not onl Adam's profit, but his pleasure; for there is pleasure with innocency nay there is true pleasure only in innocency. When Providence puts u in a place of plenty and pleasure, we ought to serve God with gladnes of heart in the good things he gives us. Eden had two trees peculiar to itself. 1. There was the tree of life in the midst of the garden. O this man might eat and live. Christ is now to us the Tree of life, R 2:7; 22:2; and the Bread of life, Joh 6:48, 51. 2. There was the tre of the knowledge of good and evil, so called because there was positive revelation of the will of God about this tree, so that by it man might know moral good and evil. What is good? It is good not to ea of this tree. What is evil? It is evil to eat of this tree. In thes two trees God set before Adam good and evil, the blessing and the curse.
Original Hebrew
ונהר 5104 יצא 3318 מעדן 5731 להשׁקות 8248 את 853 הגן 1588 ומשׁם 8033 יפרד 6504 והיה 1961 לארבעה 702 ראשׁים׃ 7218
