ἀπὸ τῆς συκῆς, etc., from the fig tree learn its parable, rapid condensed speech befitting the tense state of mind; learn from that kind of tree (article generic) the lesson it can teach with regard to the moral order: Tender branch, young leaf = summer nigh. Schott, Comm. Ex. Dog., p. 125, renders ἀπὸ τ. σ. ope ficus = ficum contemplando. On the form εκφυη vide notes on Mk.

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