And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
All Commentaries on Genesis 2:8 Go To Genesis 2
John Chrysostom
AD 407
And when, dearly beloved, you hear that “God planted a garden in Eden in the east,” take the word planted in a sense appropriate to God—namely, that he commanded this happen—and about the next phrase, believe that a garden came into being in the place that Scripture indicated.
