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Confrontation
turning in every direction, were placed as sentinels to guard the way of
the tree of life from the approach of Satan and the guilty pair. Adam
and Eve had forfeited all right to their beautiful Eden home, and were
now expelled from it. The earth was cursed because of Adam’s sin,
and was ever after to bring forth briers and thorns. While he lived,
Adam was to be exposed to the temptations of Satan and was finally
to pass through death to dust again.