Hub drilldown spanning both testaments. Full Gen 2:9, 3:22–24 + Rev 2:7, 22:2, 22:14. Featured commentary: Henry on Gen 2 (Puritan), Seiss on Rev 22 (Evangelical). Cross-references back to /featured/creation-to-new-creation/tree-of-life-bracket for the structural-bookend angle.
Tree of Life — the bookend
Eden's center, guarded after the Fall; restored, multiplied, and unguarded in Revelation 22.
Primary passage:Genesis 2:9 →
Commentary
Featured voice
Matthew Henry
Complete Commentary
G E N E S I S CHAP. II. This chapter is an appendix to the history of the creation, more particularly explaining and enlarging upon that part of the history which relates immediately to man, the favourite of this lower world. We have in it, I. The institution and…
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