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3Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)It is here shown that godliness has the promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come. I. It is here again and again laid down as an undoubted truth that those who are truly holy are truly happy . Those whose blessed state we are here assured of are such as fear the Lord and walk in his ways , such as have a deep reverence of God upon their spirits and evidence it by a regular and c…
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