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The gospel spreads from heart to heart, and from lip to lip (cf. But mark, the drops of which that stream is composed are living men. And the stream is the gospel (the four-parted river in Eden has been likened to the four Gospels), spreading throughout the world, bringing healing, light, and life enabling men to rejoice in hope. The tree with its fruit and leaves are the manifestation of Christ to the soul - to sinners pardon, to the weak support and guidance, to saints communion. And again, the word used for "tree" in all these passages is that used for the cross in Galatians 3:13 and 1 Peter 2:24.
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Meanwhile our Lord had said, "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness." A link to connect this with Genesis 2. "living water," John 4:10), and the tree whose fruit and leaves are for food and healing. But before the volume of revelation closed, the same symbols are shown in vision to St. The work committed to weak hands the treasure in earthen vessels. But observe, the vision is of a coming dispensation. And the trees not different from the tree of life ( Ezekiel 47:12: "It shall bring forth new fruit") varied manifestations of grace for food and for medicine. Again we have the stream now specially to heal. "Where is now thy God?" Where thy hope? Such the state of the world when a vision given to Ezekiel ( Ezekiel 47:1-12), reproducing the imagery of Eden, but adapted to the need of fallen man. Then a time of trouble: Jerusalem a desolation the people in captivity the temple destroyed the ark gone sacrifices at an end. We pass over much of preparation for his coming: the selection of a people the care of God for his vineyard the ordinances and services foreshadowing the gospel. What remained was the promise of a Savior. But sin came, and death present possession was lost. Actual channels of life and blessing, they were also figures of that salvation which the history of the world was gradually to unfold. They link the paradise of unfallen man to that of redeemed man. Montgomery These two features of Eden claim special attention.