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are not named. The things that are named in the Gar- 

 den of Delight are trees only. 



The words are, " every tree that was pleasant to the 

 sight and good for food ; " and as if to mark the idea more 

 strongly for us in the Septuagint, even the ordinary Greet 

 word for tree is not used, but the word iiAoy, literally, 

 every c wood,' every piece of timber that was pleasant or 

 good. They are indeed the " vivi travi," living rafters, 

 of Dante's Apennine. 



Do you remember how those trees were said to be 

 watered ? Not by the four rivers only. The rivers could 

 not supply the place of rain. No rivers do; for in truth 

 they are the refuse of rain. No storm-clouds were there, 

 nor hidings of the blue by darkening veil ; but there went 

 up a mist from the earth, and watered the face of the 

 ground, or, as in Septuagint and Vulgate, " There went 

 forth a fountain from the earth, and gave the earth to 

 drink." 



30. And now, lastly, we continually think of that Gar- 

 den of Delight, as if it existed, or could exist, no longer ; 

 wholly forgetting that it is spoken of in Scripture as per- 

 petually existent ; and some of its fairest trees as existent 

 also, or only recently destroyed. When Ezekiel is describ- 

 ing to Pharaoh the greatness of the Assyrians, do you re- 

 member what image he gives of them? "Behold, the 

 Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches ; and 

 his top was among the thick boughs ; the waters nourished 

 him, and the deep brought him up, with her rivers run- 



