Revelation 6:13

and the stars of heaven So still in Matthew 24:29.

as a fig tree 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 "untimely fig" 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.