To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin or your selfishness. But in that casket—safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable...The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers...of love is Hell.
C.S. Lewis

FIG TREE

FIG TREE

FIG TREE, The

  1. Produces a rich sweet fruit # Jud 9:11
  2. Not found in desert places # Nu 20:5
  3. ABOUNDED IN 3a) Egypt

    # Ps 105:33

3b) Canaan # Nu 13:23 De 8:8 4) Often grew wild # Am 7:14 5) Sometimes planted in vineyards # Lu 13:6 6) Propagated by the Jews # Am 4:9 7) Required cultivation # Lu 13:8 8) Fruit of, formed after winter # So 2:11,13 9) Leaves of, put forth, a sign of the approach of summer # Mt 24:32 10) Reasonableness of expecting fruit upon, when full of leaves # Mr 11:13 11) FRUIT OF 11a) Eaten fresh from the tree # Mt 21:18,19 11b) Eaten dried in cakes # 1Sa 30:12 11c) Gathered and kept in baskets # Jer 24:1 11d) First ripe esteemed # Jer 24:2 Ho 9:10 11e) Used in the miraculous healing of Hezekiah # 2Ki 20:7 Isa 38:21 11f) Sold in the markets # Ne 13:15 11g) Sent as presents # 1Sa 25:18 1Ch 12:40 12) A species of, produced vile and worthless fruit # Jer 29:17 13) Leaves of, used by Adam for covering # Ge 3:7 14) Afforded a thick shade # Joh 1:48,50 15) Often unfruitful # Lu 13:7 16) Failure of, a great calamity # Hab 3:17 17) THE JEWS PUNISHED BY 17a) God’s breaking down # Ho 2:12 17b) Failure of fruit on # Jer 8:13 Hag 2:19 17c) Enemies devouring fruit of # Jer 5:17 17d) Barking and eating of, by locusts # Joe 1:4,7,12 Am 4:9 18) ILLUSTRATIVE 18a) (Barren,) of mere professors of religion # Mt 21:19 Lu 13:6,7 18b) (Sitting under one’s own,) of prosperity and peace # 1Ki 4:25 Mic 4:4 19) FRUIT OF, ILLUSTRATIVE 19a) Of good works # Mt 7:16 19b) (Good,) of saints # Jer 24:2,3 19c) (Bad,) of wicked men # Jer 24:2-8 19d) (First ripe,) of the fathers of the Jewish church # Ho 9:10 19e) (Untimely and dropping,) of the wicked ripe for judgment # Isa 34:4 Na 3:12 Re 6:13