“Why should healing be necessary in eternity to come?” The answer is in the Greek word for “healing,” therapeian, from which the English word therapeutic is derived. Rather than specifically meaning “healing,” it should be understood as “health-giving,” as the word in its root meaning has the idea of serving or ministering. In other words, the leaves of the tree promote the enjoyment of life in the New Jerusalem and are not for correcting ills that do not exist.3 This is confirmed by the fact that there is no more curse, as indicated in verse 3.
