wi&h "Ii ring wawr," Ila..., C••• hut ia pro- is yielded twelve tlmee u often as ordin,nv perly distinguuhed from lt in traUBlation. fruit. The signifioa.tion, therefore. ia that 1'he two -eicpresaiona are peonli.ar to St. there is an e..-er-present supply. Tbe jmt John's writings in the New Telitameut; the is not of twoln diff'orent kinda; t.he tree of g,enltival form, which is the more Hebraizing, life bears but one kind (cf. Ezek. xhii. 12; only oecurs iD this book in eh. vii. 17; :ui. "And bf the river upon the bank tll4:roof, 6.; XX.ll. 11, 17; Wft61'888 •tht, parifoipiaJ and OD this Bide end on that side, ~hall grow·au more elaesioo.l form ta con ffuei.l to the Gospel tre.llll. for meat, wh~ leaf ■hall oot fade, (Johli i..-. 10; .viL 88). "Li,ing water," in neither shall the fruit thereof be aonaumed, its simplest literalness, means BUoh water aa it shsll · bring forth new fruit eoeording W itJ pure..lowing, 11Jlear, fresh, and· wholeaome; his montha"). And the leav1111 of tlul treo not stagnant, or turbid, or wt.. ·Hence it• were for the heriling· of the utioll1.(ef.: a proper term for -the water of a beautiful . Ezek, dvii. 12. quoted ahove, "And the and fertilizing river. Here, however, tlie fruit thereof ahell be for meat, and the leaf genithal form reminds us of tho familiBr thereof for medicine"). "'fhe nations•• ..,.,. cxpreB&ion, aimih.rly monl,lcd, " the tree of [l!lt the, best.hen, but the multitude of th& life," which inolines us to think .it•t" WBWI' red0jmled, gathered oat of every nation (aeie, of life" signifiell water ,po118tl811ing ,}ife..gi,-iug on ob. ni. 24). It ill, of oourse, net implied-' powers, -water which restores, refreshes, wp-, that there ill, in. the new Jerusalem, an-v. ports life, end is therefore to be compared· disease wl1ioh nee,le healing, but the tree <if with "living watfil'" taken in it& spiritual · life ia pui Corwanl rui the 0100.111 by whieh' B0ll88. Of tbw wboaoever drinkeih -eheU the perpetual health and Ii& and geneml neTer thirst ega.in ~ when it h.s been once ' well-being of the inhabitants are BUStBined.; received within the lionl, it beoomee Iii well :Vet, S.....;And there shall be no more emu; of wster springing up -into eved!Ult.ing- lifes and tllef'e slwll btJ no acm,ir8lld thing any $1Jf"&· (Jelin iv.- H). Clear u Ol}'atal, prooeeding Nothing aoour'lled exillts in that mty, ~ out of the tbronfi of God and of tu Lamb;. there ill uo sin there. 'l'he narrative h - olea", or Wnspa,-ent. We seld<Jlll use the- passee. into the future tense (cf. eh. :r.L 7): :DBndering,of'.,the Revised Veraion, bright, 118 :But the tbrone of God and of. the Lem) e11all an epithet of: water. .Al orgsf,ail (see note_ be .in it ; and his servants shall aerve him J on eh. ff, 61 tha only other plw in the New and IM throne, etc. This is the OOn!J04uence Teatamenl where .the word: lllfflilrll). ·TI.le of there heing no accursed thing (cf. Joeh.
the.- 80lll'lle oftbe riffi was in t.be Divine throne, vii. 12, lS, "Neither will I be with you any of the '11riu.ne God and the cruoified more. • • • There is an aoonrl!OO thing in Saviour. Ail eternal life is derived from the midst of thee, 0 Lua.e-1 "). God dwell• in om heavenly .Fat.her by the Holy Spirit for the city bec&use all is holy. The thrime of the l8ke of thtt Redeemer. · God and of. she Lamb ia one-God and th• ,-Ver. 2.-In the mi4st of thutreet of it. Lamb are one. Again,. hu!nn,ant,, the fllll'- Thuuentenee appean1 to belong.to the pre-, nuts or God and the Lamb ( cf. John L SO). ceding· verse, as in the Revised Version., They " aerve him," as dclllJ'ibed in eh. xix. Fot(l):the ,q,.(, "and," which follows, seema 1-'7 and elsewhere. · the' Beginning ,of the fl'Elllh feature of the Ver. 4.-And they ahall see hill fac.; · and d~ption (-et": ·ver. cl); and (2) the aoo<1un, , hia D!Ulle shall be in their foreheads, Another heM, given is·evidentiy derived from Eze.k. consequence of there being no flllCUfB!ld thing :r:lvii.,· wh~ bhe river is connected ·eti5h -no ein· (ace on TIii', S). All are pure in trees, but no l!Ubh mention is made of street&. heart, and therefore they· see God. The. And on eithei side of this, .rinr, wu ther 3 same promise is wad& in 1 John- iiL 2. The' the tree -of life; and on- thv sidti of the rirer last clanse conncots this chaptor with eh. and oa that IDIU the tree of life; The begin- iii. 12, and slttiws thBi those who ali hen ning of the-new sentenoo (fide nprd). The described are those who have ove:rcome (of. singular " tree " seems iniended to bt nnder-.a also oh. vii; xiv. 1). stood geoerioo.11-y of the whole of -that cla.se Ver. 5.-And iheruluill bell!> nig1R then; of trees. For this reason ptobsbly ~ and they need no caadle, neither light of the LXX. renders the Hebzew of Ezck. :r:lvii. 7 aun ; for· the Lcird God giveth them. liglit; by the plural "treea." We may IIBtl in this and there ,AaU 116 ai,;ht no nwre; IJ1llll thq bountiful supply of the .ll'ee8 of life an. need no light of lamp, nei{lwr light of - ; image of the abundance or gJ&Cl!II end life in for IJ1e lnrd God ,hall ..ikifltl upon them. A,, lltcre for the roueemed (cf. the dllllCFiption repetition of eh. xxi. 23, 25 (which->- In in Ezck. :r:l vii.). Wbioh l>aro twain 1na, mc.,>r· ui. 23 we we told "the Lamb is the Light of fndta, and yielded bar frllit every month; thereof; ,. here, " the LorJ God ahineUl n.ther, ltDe!t6 crop, of fruit, y.ddiwo iu /nm upon them.,. Again an assertion of the· ~ ·1110nlh; Le. one crop in eacli ,month, Divinity Q[ the Son (ef. ver. 3). And thaJ: The number twelve signi.iie1 compluteueee 1hall reip-for ever and ever. This pte,Ue- (1101 on oh. ii", 9; Yii -i-11,et.c.). Tliis fi·uil tiou and promiae enda the Revelation, ae UTI:Iu\TlON. 2 111 fi(6 'l'HE REVELATION OF ST. JOHN TilE DIVINE. [oe. nn. t-21.