...come seeking fruit on this fig-tree, and find none : cut it down ; why cmnbereih it the ground ? 8 And, he answering, said unto him, Lord, let it alone...year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it : 9 And if it bear fruit, ii'dl: and if not, then after that thou shait cut it down. 10 ^f And he was...

...the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these " three yearsl come seeking fruit on this fig tree* " and find none: cut it down ; why cumbereth " it the ground...** him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I * Repent in time, the only way to avoid divine wratlu " shall dig about it, and dungit: and if it bear...

...unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?...bear fruit, well; and if not, then after that thou shall cut it down. ON THE PARABLE OF THE FIG TREE 138 SERMON XXVI. LUKE xiii. 6 — 9. He spake also...

...seeking fruit on this fig-tree, and find none : cut it down ; why cumbcreth it the ground f And lie, answering, said unto him, Lord, let it alone this...till I shall dig about it and dung it; and, if it btar fruit, veil; and, if not, then after that thou shall cut it down." Now, if, with some commentators,*...

...I come seeking fruit on this fig-tree, and find none : cut it down ; why cumbereth it the ground? 8 And he, answering, said unto him, Lord, let it alone...year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it : 9 And if it bear fruit, -well ; and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down. 10 And he was...

...ALSO; and it should appear by what follows in the parable, that the tree was spared, for he adds, " and if it bear fruit, well; and if not, then after that, thou shalt cut it down." There is something grateful and delightful to the human breast in the idea, ' to spare,' it is compounded...

...keeping in rank. ( 1 Chron. xii. 33.) When then Jesus represents the vine.dresser as saying to his lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it and dung it, it should stem that we are not to understand the digging wilh a spade about the fig.tree, planted in...

...required of this generation.' xiii. 5. ' Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.' xiii. 9. ' If it bear fruit, well ;- and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.' xvii. 24. ' As the lightning — so shall the Son of Man be in his day.' xix. 27. ' Those mine enemies...

...required of this generation.' xiii. 5. ' except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.' xiii. p. ' If it bear fruit, well ; and if not, then after that, thou shalt cut it down.' xvii. 24. ' As the lightning — so shall the Son of man be in his day.' xix. 27. ' Those mine enemies...

...duwn ; why cumbereth it the ground ? And he anfwering faid, Lord, let it alone till I jhall dig about it — and if it bear fruit* well : and if not, then after that thou ftialt cut it down. OBJ. 3. What right had our Saviour to the fruit of this tree, if there had been...