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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 2 – The Seven Churches
first book of the Bible, the tree of life in the

last; the tree of life in the “paradise”

(Septuagint) in Eden at the beginning, and the

tree of life in the paradise of which John now

speaks, in heaven above. But if there is but one

tree, and that was at first upon earth, it may be

asked how it has now come to be in heaven.

And the answer would be that it must have

been taken up, or translated, to the paradise

above. There is no possible way that the same

identical body which is situated in one place

can be located in another, but by being

transported bodily thither. And that the tree

of life and paradise have been removed from

earth to heaven, besides the necessary

inference from this argument, there is very

good reason to believe.