Tree of life @ stood also in the midst of the garden of Eden Genesis:2:9Genesis:3:22). Some writers have advanced the opinion that this tree had some secret virtue, which was fitted to preserve life. Probably the lesson conveyed was that life was to be sought by man, not in himself or in his own power, but from without, from Him who is emphatically the Life John:1:4John:14:6). Wisdom is compared to the tree of life Proverbs:3:18). The "tree of life" spoken of in the Book of Revelation Revelation:2:7Revelation:22:2Revelation:22:14) is an emblem of the joys of the celestial paradise.
Tree of the knowledge of good and evil @ stood in the midst of the garden of Eden, beside the tree of life Genesis:2-3). Adam and Eve were forbidden to take of the fruit which grew upon it. But they disobeyed the divine injunction, and so sin and death by sin entered our world and became the heritage of Adam's posterity. (See ADAM.)
