Psalms 80:8

Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.

Ver. 8. Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt] The Church is oft set forth by this similitude. The Rabbis say that Solomon made a vine of gold in the temple. Athenaeus telleth us that the kings of Persia sat under a golden vine having bunches of smaragds and other stately stones. All this was nothing to God's vine, that plant of renown, brought out of Egypt (where it got no good, Ezekiel 34:29; Eze 20:8), and set in a better soil.