PARADISE TRANSLATED by Editor

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 14, 1861

PARADISE TRANSLATED.

By Editor

We present the following from Kurtz' Sacred History, not that we would consider it proof of the view which it sets forth, because he has said it, but from the fact that when we have adopted conclusions which many are disposed to regard as fanciful, it is with agreeable surprise that we often find celebrated authors advocating the same. The question is often asked, What has become of the original paradise? On this point Mr. K. speaks as follows, which many of our readers will recognize as a view with which they have long been familiar. He says:

"The act of God in appointing the Cherubim 'to keep the way of the tree of life' [Gen. iii, 24] in the garden of Eden, likewise appears not only in an aspect indicating judicial severity, but also in one which conveys a promise full of consolation. The blessed abode from which man is expelled, is neither annihilated nor even abandoned to desolation and ruin, but withdrawn from the earth and from man and consigned to the care of the most perfect creatures of God, in order that it may be ultimately restored to man when he is redeemed. Rev. xxii, 2. The garden as it existed before God 'planted' or adorned it, came under the curse like the remainder of the earth, but the celestial and paradisiacal addition was exempted and entrusted to the Cherubim. The true paradise is now translated to the invisible world. . . . And the original itself as the renewed habitation of redeemed man will hereafter descend to the earth. Rev. xxi, 10."