Charles Spurgeon Commentary Genesis 3:23-24

"therefore Jehovah God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden the Cherubim, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life." — Genesis 3:23-24 (ASV)

Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from where he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

"O, what a fall was there, my countrymen, Then I, and you, and all of us fell down;" while sin triumphed over us. Yet even the fall by Adam's sin was not without the promise of a gracious recovery through the last Adam, the Lord from heaven. Well does Dr. Watts set forth the contrast between the fall of the angels and the fall of man –

"Down headlong from their native skies
The rebel angels fell,
And thunderbolts of flaming wrath
Pursued them deep to hell."

"Down from the top of earthly bliss
Rebellious man was hurled;
And Jesus stooped beneath the grave
To reach a sinking world."

He did not take on Himself the nature of angels; but He took our nature, and died in our place. May we trust in His death to bring us life, and thereby be saved from the consequences of the fall!