SEV Biblia, Chapter 2:8
¶ Y había plantado el SEÑOR Dios un huerto en Edén al oriente, y puso allí al hombre que formó.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Genesis 2:8
Verse 8. A garden eastward in Eden] Though the word d[ Eden signifies pleasure or delight, it is certainly the name of a place. See chap. iv. 16 2 Kings xix. 12 Isa. xxxvii. 12 Ezek. xxvii. 23 Amos i. 5. And such places probably received their name from their fertility, pleasant situation, &c. In this light the Septuagint have viewed it, as they render the passage thus: efuteusen o qeov paradeison en eden, God planted a paradise in Eden. Hence the word paradise has been introduced into the New Testament, and is generally used to signify a place of exquisite pleasure and delight. From this the ancient heathens borrowed their ideas of the gardens of the Hesperides, where the trees bore golden fruit; the gardens of Adonis, a word which is evidently derived from the Hebrew d[ Eden; and hence the origin of sacred gardens or enclosures dedicated to purposes of devotion, some comparatively innocent, others impure. The word paradise is not Greek; in Arabic and Persian it signifies a garden, a vineyard, and also the place of the blessed. The Mohammedans say that God created the Jennet al Ferdoos, the garden of paradise, from light, and the prophets and wise men ascend thither. Wilmet places it after the root farada, to separate, especially a person or place, for the purposes of devotion, but supposes it to be originally a Persian word, vox originis Persicae quam in sua lingua conservarunt Armeni. As it is a word of doubtful origin, its etymology is uncertain.
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
ויטע 5193 יהוה 3068 אלהים 430 גן 1588 בעדן 5731 מקדם 6924 וישׂם 7760 שׁם 8033 את 853 האדם 120 אשׁר 834 יצר׃ 3335
