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But yet: Isa 1:9, Isa 4:3, Isa 10:20-22; Mat 24:22; Mar 13:20; Rom 11:5-6, Rom 11:16-29
and it shall return: etc. or, when it is returned, and hath been broused
teil tree: The teil-tree is the linden or lime-tree, a species very common in Palestine; the leaf of which resembles that of the laurel, and its flower that of the olive. But the original ailah which our translators render the oak (but here distinguished from allon the oak), and Bp. Lowth the ilex in Isa 1:29-30, probably denotes, as Celsius contends, the terebintḣ It is an evergreen of moderate size, but having the top and branches large in proportion to the trunk; leaves, like those of the olive, but green intermixed with red and purple; flowers, like those of the vine, growing in bunches, and purple; fruit, of a ruddy purple, the size of a juniper berry, hanging in clusters, very juicy, and containing a single seed of the size of a grape stone; wood, hard and fibrous, from which a resin distils; with an excresence scattered among the leaves, of the size of a chestnut, of a purple colour, variegated with green and white.
substance: or, stock, or stem, Job 14:7-9
so the holy: Isa 65:8-9; Gen 22:18; Ezr 9:2; Mal 2:15; Joh 15:1-3; Rom 9:5, Rom 11:5, Rom 11:24; Gal 3:16-19, Gal 3:28-29