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He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in the middle of it, and also cut out a wine press in it. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.
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Verse 2. Stones. They burn and starve in different seasons. Colossians 2:3.—Choicest. Hebrew sorek. Bible.—There was a famous valley of this name. Judges 16:4. The angels guarded the vineyard, in which Abraham, Moses, and so forth were found.—Tower. To keep the wine, and so forth Matthew 21:33. It denotes the temple, ( Calmet.) Scriptures, and so forth Menochius.—Wild. Sour. Deuteronomy 32:32.
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