Introduction 
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Quotable quotes
Let it be revised - I do accept this, yet, then, we should change absolutely nothing! On the other hand, indeed, let it not be revised - and I do accept that, too! But then, some things should be changed indeed, I mean a little bit here, a little bit there, namely in any and every single essential aspect! I say this to you all: none of you will ever get out of this very dilemma! (Mr. Farfuridi, a politician, in I.L. Caragiale, One Lost Letter)
Texts and metatexts
"To him who will conquer, I will give him to eat from the tree of life, that is in God's paradise.", Rev. 2.7b. I am impressed to see that in the Book of Revelation, God's paradise is described as a place of abounding life. Whoever is thirsty is invited to receive, as a gift, freely, the water of life (22.17). The conqueror is given to eat, freely, as a gift, from the tree of life. In the heavenly Jerusalem, the trees of life will heal all illnesses and suffering (22.1: tea? food? medicine?). In Eden there were both the tree of life and the tree of knowing good and evil, and a test for man. In paradise there is no more testing, anylonger, there is the certitude of God's generous gifts. All testing has been passed by the Lord, and his believers followed him in his obedience to God. For men, this is the age of enjoying life eternally, with our Creator. That's wonderful news!
