George Leo Haydock, on Gen 2:10

“And a river went out of the place of pleasure to water paradise, which from thence is divided into four heads.”

“A river, &c. Moses gives many characteristics of Paradise, inviting us, as it were, to search for it; and still we cannot certainly discover where it is, or whether it exist at all at present, in a state of cultivation. We must therefore endeavour to find the mystic Paradise, Heaven and the true Church; the road to which, though more obvious, is too frequently mistaken. See St. Augustine, City of God xiii. 21.; Proverbs iii. 18. (Haydock)”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.