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Annotatio LVII — Genesis 3:24

“He placed before Paradise a Cherub.”

Annotatio LVII

”He placed before Paradise a Cherub.” — Genesis 3:24

Theodore, Bishop of Heraclea, weighing this clause, thinks that the Cherubim, the guardians of Paradise, were not spirits endowed with reason, but certain specters, feigned for the sake of terrifying.1 See the following Annotation.

Footnotes

  1. Right margin: Whether the Cherubim are angels, or specters. (An Cherubini sint angeli, vel spectra.) ↩