Now, here’s the tree of death. I have my idea of what it was; you can have yours. But anyhow, that whenever they’d taken this tree, they were going to die. But if they ever taken this Tree, they were going to live. So, when they’d taken the tree of death, that separated them from God, and He put an Angel around that Tree to keep them from taking It. Because the very time that they’d taken of that Tree, they would live forever, even knowing good from evil. Is that right? All right. Then notice. That tree was the woman, and when they…when Adam partaken of this, it separated him…The woman still brings the—the life in the world; it has to die again. But the Tree of Life that was standing in there, was Jesus Christ. When He come down there at the Jewish feast that day, and they said, “Our fathers eat manna in the wilderness.”… And He said, “And they’re every one dead. But I am the Bread of Life that come from heaven. If a man eat thereof, he shall never die.” He was that Tree that was in the garden of Eden.

Earnestly Contending for the Faith That Was Once Delivered to the Saints, 1953-06-14, Connersville, IN, §26