What Does Revelation 22:2 Mean in the King James?
In the midst of the street of it, and on 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.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The tree’s life reaches beyond its fruit: even its leaves carry care for the nations.
THE MEANING
Life stands at the center and beside the river, continually bearing fruit while its leaves bring healing to the nations. Provision and restoration reach whole peoples here, not only individuals.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that whole peoples are beyond healing is undone here: the tree’s leaves are for the healing of the nations.
THE ROOT
θεραπεία
therapeia
GROWS FROM
θεραπευ-
The Greek word family carries the sense of attending to, caring for, and treating.
The word belongs to a family for attending and treating, so healing here carries the shade of care rendered. That care flows through the tree’s leaves to the nations.
ALSO GROWS
therapeuō: to attend to, serve, or heal
θεραπεύω
It shares the stem and shows healing as a form of attentive care.
therapeutēs: an attendant or healer
θεραπευτής
This branch makes visible the one who attends to another’s need, echoing the care the leaves bring.
THE PATTERN
Life’s provision continues, and its fruit extends into restoration.
And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.THE THREAD
And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.Ezekiel pictures trees on both banks of a river whose monthly fruit feeds and whose leaves are medicine. Revelation 22:2 carries the same pattern into a vision where the leaves are for the nations’ healing.
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