Water of Life by Editor

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Dec 18, 1879

Water of Life.

By Editor

In the "International Lessons" for Sunday Schools is the following comment on Rev. 22:1:—

"‘Water of life.’ A Hebraism for ‘living water,’ or water flowing as from a spring, fresh, clear, and cool."

After the same method of interpretation we are to suppose the expression, "Tree of life," is a Hebraism for a "living tree." Thus in Gen. 2:9 a living tree would form a beautiful contrast with the other trees, which we may suppose were dead trees, in the garden of Eden!

These international Sunday-school lessons contain about as much theological twaddle as can anywhere be found.