Annotatio LIX
”He placed before the Paradise of pleasure a Cherub.” — Genesis 3:24
Ambrose [Catharinus], Bishop of Compsa, in this passage relates that Moses, together with his body, was translated alive into the Paradise of pleasure,1 that he might live there, until the consummation of the age, with Enoch, Elijah, and John. He confirms the same opinion in the exposition of that Mosaic saying, “The Lord had planted a Paradise [in] Eden,” Genesis 2.2 This same thing had, long before, been thought [This same thing had, long before, been thought] before [Catharinus] by St. Ambrose, as you will be able to see below, in the sixty-first Annotation of this book, and in the ninety-first Annotation of the following book.