A fire devours before them; and behind them a flame burns: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Flame. They destroy all by their bite, chap. i. 12. (Calmet) (Theodoret)
Pleasure. Hebrew, "Eden. "So luxuriant was Palestine.