29And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees;
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Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near: …
Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 29-38)Here, in the close of this discourse, I. Christ appoints his disciples to observe the signs of the times, which they might judge by, if they had an eye to the foregoing directions, with as much certainty and assurance as they could judge of the approach of summer by the budding forth of the trees, Luke 21:29-31. As in the kingdom of nature there is a chain of causes, so in the kingdom of providenc…
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