Matthew Poole and continuators on Revelation 22:2

2 In the midst of the street of it, and of either side of the river, was there the tree of life , which bare twelve manner of fruits , and yielded her fruit every month ; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations .

Trees, especially Fruit-trees, and those laden with Fruit, and variety of Fruit, and such as instead of being prejudicial to Life, are wholesom, and give Life, are very beautiful, especially in, or near a City. The City in Ezekiel's Vision, ch. 47.7. is thus described. This Expression further shews the infinite Pleasure, and Soul-satisfaction the Saints shall have in Heaven. But we are further told here, that the Tree here was the Tree of Life; a manifest Allusion to a T[illegible: 1 letter]ee so called in old Paradise, Gen. 2.9. and who can this agree to, but Christ,

in whom all Fulness dwelt, the Fulness of the Godhead, and who was anointed, and received the Spirit without measure,

and is daily distributing of his Fulness to his People;

and in whom there is nothing useless, but what tends either to the Life or healing of his People out of all Nations.

Marginal references: Chap. 21.21.; Gen. 2.9. Chap. 2.7.