Yahweh God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...” Therefore Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed cherubim/f + cherubim are powerful angelic creatures, messengers of God with wings. See Ezekiel 10./f* at the east of the garden of […]
⛓ Read Genesis 3 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Reversal of the expulsion: access to the tree of life, barred by the cherubim and flaming sword, is now restored to the servants (cf. 22:14). The 'no more curse' note ties directly back to the Eden judgment. Strong figural reversal.
High confidenceRight to the tree of life and entry restored — direct reversal of the barred access after Eden's expulsion. Coherence with 22:2; the 'right to the tree of life' is the Edenic inheritance regranted.
High confidence◇ Figural1
A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
Typological reversal: access to the tree of life, barred by cherubim and the flaming sword after the expulsion, is now restored to the conqueror. High on thematic coherence and satisfaction — Revelation reads the Christ-event as undoing the Fall. "Paradise" (παράδεισος) is the LXX rendering of the garden of Eden, a clear LXX-mediated lexical link.
High confidence