Revelation 6:13

τοῦ οὐρανοῦ. Primas[258] omits; A reads τοῦ θεοῦ.

[258] Primasius, edited by Haussleiter.

βάλλει. Tisch[259] reads βάλλουσα with א and many cursives.

[259] Tischendorf: eighth edition; where the text aud notes differ the latter are cited.

13. οἱ�. Here we return to the Prophecy of the Mount of Olives, Matthew 24:29.

ὡς συκῆ. It is curious that a “parable of the fig-tree” follows in Matthew 24:32, immediately after the “fall of the stars.” But this image is taken, not from our Lord’s prophecy l.c., but from Isaiah 34:4 (the Hebrew, not LXX.). The ὄλυνθος “untimely fig” (whence Bethphage) is the fig which, having formed too late to ripen in the autumn, hangs through the winter, but almost always drops off before the sap begins to rise in spring, so as not to come to maturity. See Comm. on Matthew 21:19 and parallels.