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461 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 5 (1887-1888), Lt 16, 1888, par. 43
… symbolic fig tree may not rest upon you, the deceptive leaves screening and masking the utter barrenness? Shall the outward work of man be attempted to be …
462 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 5 (1887-1888), Lt 16, 1888, par. 45
… withered fig tree has a personal application. Who cannot see the living counterpart in the men and women who claim to have great light in advance of every …
463 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 5 (1887-1888), Lt 46, 1888, par. 20
… unfruitful fig tree, producing only leaves. Let not the work be delayed until God shall say, “Cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?” [ Luke 13:7 .]
464 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 5 (1887-1888), Lt 64, 1888, par. 21
… a fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? So can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh. Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among …
465 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 6 (1889-1890), Lt 2, 1889, par. 13
… the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut …
466 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 6 (1889-1890), Lt 6a, 1890, par. 80
… , or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit …
467 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 6 (1889-1890), Ms 10, 1890, par. 12
… the fig tree shall not blossom, neither fruit be found in the vine; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut …
468 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 6 (1889-1890), Ms 27, 1890, par. 3
… .] A tree is known by its fruit. Men do not gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles. Christ says, “I am the vine, ye are the branches.” [ John 15:5 .] The branches of the vine …
469 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 7 (1891-1892), Lt 45, 1891, par. 5
… a fig tree covered with leaves. He searched its branches for fruit, but in vain. It bore nothing but leaves, and Christ pronounced on it a withering curse. “Let …
470 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 7 (1891-1892), Lt 45, 1891, par. 6
This fig tree represented the Jewish nation. Christ knew that the downfall of the nation was sure. The tears He shed on the crest of Olivet were not for Himself. He wept for those who ere long would weep for themselves.
471 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 7 (1891-1892), Lt 45, 1891, par. 9
… fruitless fig tree is a warning to all who claim to be Christians and yet remain in blind unbelief. Thus from age to age the Lord would teach the danger of rejecting …
472 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 7 (1891-1892), Lt 45, 1891, par. 10
… fruitless trees, bearing nothing but leaves. As the Lord unmasked the fig tree, so He will unmask these pretentious hypocrites.
473 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 7 (1891-1892), Lt 45, 1891, par. 13
… , and figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit …
474 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 7 (1891-1892), Ms 7, 1891, par. 37
… , or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit …
475 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 7 (1891-1892), Ms 7, 1891, par. 38
… the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries, either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh. Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge …
476 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 7 (1891-1892), Ms 24, 1891, par. 34
… the fig tree.” [ Zechariah 3:1-10 .]
477 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 7 (1891-1892), Lt 50, 1892, par. 16
… the fig tree shall not blossom, neither fruit be in the vine, and the labor of the olive should fail, and the field shall yield no meat, and the flock be cut off from …
478 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 7 (1891-1892), Lt 97, 1892, par. 1
… the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut …
479 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 7 (1891-1892), Ms 29, 1892, par. 17
… and fig trees, writing a portion of each day upon the life of Christ. This book is needed so much. And now the question is up, Shall I go to New Zealand and spend three …
480 Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 8 (1893), Lt 36, 1893, par. 15
… description. Fig trees, lemon trees, and fruit trees of every variety are cultivated upon the crest of these hills. Mr. and Mrs. Reed’s home was not the highest …