And there are husks of fruit that are void and chaos, darkness, and the depths, [such] that these husks are evil, but the mind inside is good. [With] the Tree of Life, its husks are beautiful and its mind is beautiful, and that is [the subject in] Its foliage was beautiful and its fruit plentiful (Daniel 4:9). And there are [also] trees that are completely evil, their minds and their husks are all bitter, and their waters are bitter.
That is [the meaning of] what is written: They came to Marah, but they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter, etc. and the Lord showed him a tree, etc.; and with it, the waters were sweetened (Exodus 15:23-25). That is a sweet tree from which come forth branches and roots about which it is said: sweeter than honey, than drippings of the comb (Psalms 19:11).