Two things are needful to be enquired into.
I. Here is a prevention of him, from his eating of the tree of life
And now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat and live for ever. Which words are elliptic, or defective, and may be supplied, either thus, There’s danger lest he put forth his hand; or, we must take care, that he does not; or, the man must he be drove out of paradise, lest, etc as we find in the following verses he was. So that the sense may be this, The man in his primitive state, was as one of us; but now, by his sin, he has brought himself into a deplorable condition. He is quite altered; he is not the man he was before; and seeing he is so much degenerated, what will not his corrupt heart prompt him to, and his wild imagination put him upon? It may be, to put forth his hand, and eat of the tree of life, that he may live for ever: therefore, it is highly expedient to put him out of the garden, lest he should make such an attempt.
Two things are needful to be enquired into.
I. What this tree of life was.
II. Why Adam was prevented from eating of it, after his fall.