2023-07-17 10:00:00
In Dom’s Then there is an apple tree. Domies Toen, domineestuin, is the presbytery garden in Pieterburen, next to the church, which has been transformed into a botanical paradise. It is a beautiful botanical garden, full of wild flowers, kitchen herbs, shrubs and trees. Bees buzz, butterflies flutter and tits, blackcaps and swallows flock to that flying buffet.
Domies Toen made a booklet (4 euros) regarding plants that are found in both the Bible and in the garden: a nice theme, especially for Fidelityreaders with some Bible knowledge. The apple tree is in the middle of the garden. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil from Genesis is also often referred to as the apple tree.
Opportunity tree
Wrongly, as I already heard in primary school: there are hardly any apples growing in Israel and that tree of knowledge must have been a fig tree, with which Adam and Eve also covered their nakedness? An apricot tree is suggested in the booklet. For my part, God created an occasional tree that bore apples, figs, and apricots, and pears and plums to boot. For those who put the universe together in six days, that seems like a piece of cake to me. The miracle lies in the fact that Adam and Eve had disobeyed and thus had done something bad, while before the fatal bite out of the fruit they had no idea that good and bad existed. Incidentally, it seems to me good (!) that we know when we do good or bad deeds.
A fig is also in Domies Toen, but I myself would choose a large butterbur to cover my nakedness. According to the booklet, the pigeon dung from 2 Kings 6 verse 25 refers to bird’s milk. Its bulbs were eaten in times of war and scarcity. In Luke 11 verse 42, Jesus reproached the Pharisees for looking too deeply into the rue, a plant that can be seen in Domies Toen. And so there are dozens of biblical plants in the garden. For those who get thirsty: the apple tree is an ornamental apple, but there is a tea house.
Three times a week, biologist Koos Dijksterhuis writes regarding something that grows or blooms. Read his previous Nature Diaries here.
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