“He names branches as the sayings of perverse scriptures, and the fruits as the meanings of those sayings; by winds, he also signifies either the troubles of persecutions or the debates of judgment: because just as fragile branches are broken by the wind, so their imperfect sayings, when struck by any hardship or debat…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on Wisdom, PL 109
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5The imperfect branches shall be broken off, their fruit unprofitable, not ripe to eat, yea, meet for nothing.
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3But the multiplying brood of the ungodly shall not thrive, nor take deep rooting from bastard slips, nor lay any fast foundation.
4For though they flourish in branches for a time; yet standing not last, they shall be shaken with the wind, and through the force of winds they shall be rooted out.
— Wisdom of Solomon 4:5 —
6For children begotten of unlawful beds are witnesses of wickedness against their parents in their trial.
7But though the righteous be prevented with death, yet shall he be in rest.