Discourse

 1  Domn|        And the trees said to the fig-tree, Come thou, and reign over
 2  Domn|       and reign over us. But the fig-tree said unto them, Should I
 3  Domn|           And it has likened the fig-tree to the command given to
 4  Domn|   nakedness with the leaves of a fig-tree;3 and the vine to the precept
 5  Domn| diversity of the fruits. For the fig-tree, on account of its sweetness
 6  Domn|           takes the fruit of the fig-tree as an emblem of goodness.
 7  Domn|        this is the cause why the fig-tree may be said not to have
 8  Domn|         sense, mean men; and the fig-tree the command, because man
 9  Domn|         Fig-Trees and Vines.~The fig-tree, as I said, from the sweetness
10  Domn|        hence he wishes to seem a fig-tree or vine, and to produce
11  Domn| overturning it. So both the true fig-tree and the true vine yield
12  Domn|      tree beareth her fruit, the fig-tree and the vine do yield their
13  Domn|       the true vine and the true fig-tree were not able to yield such
14  Domn|          whilst as yet the false fig-tree, variously adorned for the
15  Domn|      sentence against the bitter fig-tree, "Let no fruit grow on thee
16  Domn|          Lord Himself,18 and the fig-tree to the Holy Spirit, as the
17  Domn|     under his vine and under his fig-tree; and none shall make them