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unto. Greek. pros. App-104.
dresser of vineyard. One word in Greek. Occurs only here. Behold. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6.
these three years. Can refer only to the period of the Lord's ministry. The texts add aph' hou = from which, or since (three years). on. Greek. en. App-104.
cut it down = cut it out: i.e. from among the vines.
cumbereth it the ground = injureth it the soil also. The Authorized Version omits this "also", though it stands in the Greek text.
cumbereth. Greek. katargeo. Only here in the Gospels. Twenty-five times in the Epistles in the sense of vitiate. See Rom_3:3.