 | Thomas Chubb - 1748 - 466 pages
...afar off, having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing, (that is, any fruit) thereon ; and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for the time of figs was not yet. And Jefus anfwered, andfaid unto it, no man eat fruit of thee hereafter forever. Verfe 20. And in the... | |
 | Zachary Pearce (bp. of Rochester.) - 1749 - 108 pages
...Fig-tree afar off 'having Leaves, be tame, if haply be might find any thing thereon ; and when he cam* to it, he found nothing but Leaves, for the time of Figs was not yet. AT firft fight any Candid Reader would imagine, that the PafTage was fome how mifunderftood, and that... | |
 | SEVERAL HANDS - 1769 - 594 pages
...feeing a fig-tree afar off, having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing ;?.iu : thereon ; and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for the time of figs was not yet." Ke obferves, that the difficulties which attend the relation of this occurrence, may be comprehended... | |
 | Isaac Mann (bp. of Cork and Ross) - 1783 - 456 pages
...hungry. And feeing a fig-tree afar off, having leaves, he came, if haply he might find anything thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs 14. was not (b) yet. And Jefus anfwered and faid unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever.... | |
 | George Horne - 1786 - 370 pages
...'words thrown into a parenthefis, thus xvn. — He came if haply he might find any u"v"~*' thing thereon (and when he came to it he found nothing but leaves) for the time of figs — of gathering figs — "was not yet. That this is the true conftruction (adds Mr. M.) is plain,... | |
 | George Horne - 1786 - 380 pages
...LE T. words thrown into a parenthefis, thus xvn. —He came if haply he might find any thing thereon (and when he came to it he found nothing but leaves) for the time of figs — of gathering figs — was not yet. That this is the true conftrudtion (adds Mr. M.) is plain, becaufe... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1787 - 278 pages
...xi. 13. This I" conceive to be neither rational, nor juft. For, in the firft place, the text fays, And when he came to it, he found nothing but 'leaves; for the time of Jigs imas not YET. Hence it is manifeft, that he required the tree to produce fruit out of feafon,... | |
 | Jeremiah Jones - 1798 - 334 pages
...How foon is the fig-tree withered away ! Chap. XL came, if haply he might find any thing thereon ; and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for the time of figs was not yet. 14. And Jtfus anfwered, and faid unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his difciples... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1798 - 326 pages
...miracle, yet, for reafons fufficiently obvious, he refers to the latter, who fays, that when Chrift cams to it he found nothing but leaves ; for the time. of figs was not yet. His argument upon this paflage is as follows : Hence it is manifeft, that he required the tree to produce... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1799 - 416 pages
...13 And seeing a figtree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon : and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves ; for the time of figs was not yet. See this passage explained in notes on Matt. xxi. 18 — 22. ' Afar off.' So far as to see that it... | |
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And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon : and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet. 
