“But lest I should appear to some to be sophistical, and to conjecture these things from mere probabilities, and to babble, I will bring forward to you, O virgins, from the Old Testament, written prophecy from the book of Judges, to show that I speak the truth, where the future reign of chastity was already clearly for…”
Methodius of Olympus, 4th c. — BANQUET OF THE TEN VIRGINS 10.2
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11But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees?
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9But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?
10And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, and reign over us.
— Judges 9:11 —
12Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us.
13And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?