...for fruits if he has not himself tended the vineyard, fenced it, and placed it on a fruitful hill, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine. How tenderly, how infinitely above our thoughts of him does he deal with his creatures. The Lord raiseth...

...well-beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My well-heloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: And he fenced it, and gathered out...bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Jiidiili. judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard....

...of my beloved, " touching his vineyard. My well-beloved hath a vineyard on " a very fruitful hill. 2 And he fenced it, and gathered out " the stones thereof,...midst of it, and also made a wine-press " therein :" &c. The words fenced it, in this description, are rendered in the margin more agreeably to the Hebrew,...

...by a passage nearly parallel in the Prophet Isaiah. — "My well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: and he fenced it, and gathered out...the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vines, and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. What could...

...prophet, applies to the hill of Sion : ' My well-beloved hath a vineyard in n very fruitful hill ; arid he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine.' Yes, God hath, as it were, taken much pains with our empire ; and, by many a complicated plan of providence,...

...ripen at all. These are the wild grapes to which the prophet compares the inhabitants of Jerusalem. " And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes." One species of vine is not less distinguished by the luxuriance of ils growth than by the richness...

...; but God, that giveth the increase :" tho" when He looketh for grapes, He may be disappointed : " He looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes !" Because they cannot always insure a good harvest, they exclude their own children, and fain would...

...verb, nt}^, is frequently applied to trees, when no metaphor is intended. Thus, Isaiah, v. 4., ' I looked, that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.' And, again, Isaiah, xxxvii. 31., ' And it shall bear fruit upward.' In the New Testament, a similar...

...And it came to pass in the seventh year of King Lewis, that Genoa waxed fat, and kicked* ; and they looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapesf . And all the people of the country, and the inhabitants of the open cities which were round...

...And it came to pass in the seventh year of King Lewis, that Genoa waxed fat, and kicked* ; and they looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapesf. And all the people of the country, and the inhabitants of the open cities which were round...