当日神在伊甸园中，将人置于二树之前：借生命树指明自己，以知识树表明撒但。
In Eden's garden fair we see
That God before two trees placed man,
The trees of life, and knowledge too,
Which for the Lord and Satan stand.

生命树乃神的中心，照神永远计划所定，神是要在基督里面，给人接受，作人生命。
The tree of life the center is
Of God's eternal, perfect plan,
Denoting God in Christ as life
To be received as all by man.

知识树是神的警告，提示神外另有源头：恶者撒但，死亡渊薮，人若接触，死亡必受。
The tree of knowledge standing there,
Bespeaks a sure and warning voice:
Outside of God there is a source
Of death to all who make this choice.

生命之树人肯接受，人必得着神作生命，且必变成珍贵宝石，神的心愿借此完成。
If man would eat the tree of life,
Then God as life he will receive,
And be transformed to precious stones,
God's will and purpose to achieve.

知识一树人若接触，撒但必得进人里面，成为罪恶，带进死亡，使神计划难得成全。
If man the tree of knowledge takes,
Then Satan enters into man
As sin, which brings him into death,
That he may not fulfill God's plan.

这是表明只有神是我们生命唯一源头；摸着神外一切事物，就是摸着死亡之由。
This signifies that only God
Is our full source of life and breath;
To touch ought else is but to touch
The source of knowledge and of death.

知识不过带来死亡，尽管外观是善非恶；在神之外任何事物，都是撒但施计之所。
For knowledge only bringeth death,
Though evil or though good it seem;
For any thing apart from God,
Is but the fruit of Satan's scheme.

不只恶与基督相对，就是善也与祂相抵；凡属知识不拘善恶，都与生命相反不一。
Not only evil, but the good
Is contradictory to Christ;
Not only knowledge of the bad,
But even good is versus Christ.

主，教我们唯独摸你，好叫我们被你充满；你外事物概不接触，对恶如此，对善亦然。
Lord, teach us only Thee to touch,
That with Thy life we filled may be,
And not to touch the good or bad,
Or anything apart from Thee.