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49. ὑπὸ τὴν συκῆν. Note the case, implying motion to under, and comp. Joh 1:18; Joh 1:32-33. The phrase probably means ‘at home,’ in the retirement of his own garden (1Ki 4:25; Mic 4:4; Zec 3:10). He had perhaps been praying or meditating, and seems to feel that Christ knew what his thoughts there had been. It was under a fig tree that S. Augustine heard the famous ‘tolle, lege.’