285.
The sixth and seventh generations' being separated from knowledge of good and truth and being left to their own foul loves and persuasions and the consequent provision made to prevent their profaning
the holy things of faith, which is meant by 'being cast out and causing cherubim with the flame of a sword to dwell there to guard the way to the tree of life,a is dealt with in verse 24.
Notes
a lit. of lives