What is the meaning of the expression in Rev. 22: 2, "The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations"? The query in the mind of our correspondent is, How could the leaves of the tree be for the healing of the nations, when the nations of the new earth will be all immortal? Here are two explanations: 1. When those nations come up from the grave, they will come up with the size and development with which they went down, simply made immortal; and through the wonderful powers of the tree of life, they will increase to the normal size that God made man in the beginning. 2. The term "healing" could as well be rendered "service." The leaves of the tree were for the service of the nations. For whatever particular use they might be put, they would be found serviceable.