This fable and the one mentioned in the margin are the only two of their kind found in Scripture. The parables of the Old Testament are somewhat di…

(13) My wine. —The Hebrew word is tirôsh, which sometimes means merely “grape-cluster.”

Which…

And the vine said to them
By way of denial and refusal, as the other two:

There was no occasion for the trees to choose a king; they are all the trees of the Lord that He has planted. Nor was there any occasion for Israel…