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Luk 13:9. Κἂν, and if) The Apodosis is to be understood: It is well, or I will leave it to stand; or else, let it bear fruit. It comes to the same.-ἐκκόψεις, thou shalt cut it off [down]) The Vine-dresser does not say, I will cut it off (down); comp. Luk 13:7; but refers the whole case to the Lord of the vineyard: however, He ceases to intercede for the fig-tree, that it should be spared.-μέλλον) viz. ἔτος, in the year to come, in antithesis to this year (τοῦτο τὸ ἔτος), Luk 13:8.