drove out. Note the failure of man under every dispensation.
placed. Heb shakan, to place in. tabernacle, hence to dwell. The Cherubim placed later in the tents of Shem, Genesis 9:26; Genesis 9:27. Compare Genesis 4:3; Genesis 4:7; Genesis 4:14; Genesis 4:16.
Cherubim. See App-41. 1 Samuel 4:4.Psalms 80:1; Psalms 99:1.
a. should be "the".
every way, not natah (aside), savav (about), sug (back), panah (toward), but haphak (every way), effectually preserving the way.
keep. See note on Genesis 2:15. preserve, so that man should not "live for ever" in his fallen condition, but only in Christ, 1 John 5:11; 1 John 5:12.
tree of life. See note on Genesis 2:9.