By the river; all along this river, which way soever it runs, it shall make its banks so fruitful, that on both sides thereof it shall be abundantly planted with best trees. Shall grow; take root, flourish, and be fruitful, as trees that like their soil. Trees for meat; they shall not be as trees that are set only for pleasure, their fruit shall be for food. Shall not fade; ever green and flourishing, as trees in the spring and in their prime. Neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed; never be so little as to be consumed and spent, never rot and decay, there shall always be fruit and enough. According to his months: these trees have, as the tree of life, their fruit every month, Revelation 22:2. Their waters; called so because watered by this stream. Issued out of the sanctuary; and so carried a blessing with them; these waters came from the temple, and were indeed a spell against barrenness. The leaf thereof: there are many herbs of a healing property, none like the leaves of these trees. For medicine; healing the nations, as Revelation 22:2. These trees most likely were palmetto trees, whence the balm that healeth, the fruit that feedeth, and juice that refresheth, and allays our thirst. Thus the letter, the mystery I do not insist on, it is no hard matter for private Christians to accommodate it to themselves.
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Ezekiel 47:12
12 And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall growd 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.