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No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,
Genesis 2:5
Tree of Life
In Genesis 2:9, 16, the tree of life signifies love and faith therefrom; in the midst of the garden signifies in the will of the internal man. (Arcana Coelestia 105)
'The tree of life,' as in Revelation 2:7, signifies the essential celestial, and in the highest sense, the Lord Himself, because everything celestial is from Him, that is, all love and charity.
(Verweise: Arcana Coelestia 2187, 2722)
