“The Fruit of the Tree of Life”
in the allegory of Eden, Christ is the tree of life, and to partake of that fruit is to partake of the cleansing powers of Christ and to receive the blessings of his Spirit (see Commentary 1:75-76). In his bread-of-life sermon given at Capernaum, Christ declared: ’Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. I am that bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.’ (John 6:47-50.) In a broader sense, the entirety of the gospel is the fruit we obtain from Christ, who is the source of eternal life.
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