| Isaiah 5:2
| And he fenced it in, and picked the stones out of it, and planted it with the choicest vines, and built a tower in the midst thereof, and set up a wine-press therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
| Stones. They burn and starve in different seasons, Colossians 12:3. --- Choicest. Hebrew sorek. (Haydock) --- There was a famous valley of this name, Judges 16:4. The angels guarded the vineyard, in which Abraham, Moses, etc., were found. --- Tower. To keep the wine, etc., Matthew 21:33. It denotes the temple, (Calmet) Scriptures, etc. (Menochius) --- Wild. Sour, Deuteronomy 32:32.
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