Whereof > Of which virtues > powers over all > everywhere read > discerned; made known
5 For happy life to all who thereon fed,
happy > fortunate; happy
6 And life eke everlasting, did befall:
eke > also, moreover
7 Great God it planted in that blessed stead
stead > place
8 With His almighty hand, and did it call 9 "The Tree of Life", the crime of our first father's fall.
crime > cause of accusation (in Gen. 3.22-4, Adam, having disobediently eaten (3.6-7) from the tree of knowledge, was banished by God from the Garden of Eden for fear that he would also taste the fruit of the tree of life. Adam thus laid himself open to the accusation of his descendants that he had denied them the opportunity to dwell in the Garden of Eden)
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