The Lord God said In his own eternal mind: Behold, the man is become as one of us See what he has got, what advantages, by eating forbidden fruit! This is said to humble them, and to bring them to a sense of their sin and folly, that, seeing themselves thus wretchedly deceived by following the devil's counsel, they might henceforth pursue the happiness God offered, in the way he prescribed.
Here is another evident proof of a plurality of persons or subsistences in the Godhead. Compare Genesis 1:26; Genesis 11:7. If it be said that God speaks this of himself and the angels, it must be replied that no mention has yet been made of the angels, and that it is unreasonable to think that the great God should level himself with angels, and give them, as the expression intimates, a kind of equality with himself.
Lest he take also of the tree of life The sentence is defective, and, it seems, must be supplied thus: Care must be taken, and man must be banished hence, lest he take of the tree of life, as he took of the tree of knowledge, and thereby profane that sacrament of eternal life, and persuade himself that he shall live for ever. To prevent this, (Genesis 3:23,) the Lord God sent him forth Expelled him with shame and violence ; from the garden of Eden So as never to restore him to that earthly paradise.