Page 9 - 22 The Tree and the River of Life

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 22 – The Tree and the River of Life
throws light upon the declaration in Isaiah

66:23, that all flesh shall come up “from one

new moon to another” to worship before the

Lord of hosts. The words new moon should be

rendered month. The Hebrew has שֶׁדֹח

(hhodesh), the second definition of which

Gesenius gives as “a month.” The Septuagint

has μῆνα ἐκ μηνὸς (mēna ek mēnos), “from

month to month.” The redeemed come up to

the holy city from month to month to partake

of the fruit of the tree of life. Its leaves are for

the healing of the nations; literally, the service

of the nations. This cannot be understood as

implying that any will enter the city in a

diseased or deformed condition to need

healing; for then the conclusion would follow

that there will always be persons there in that

condition, as we have no reason to understand

that the service of the leaves, whatever it is,