Ezechiel 15:2
Son of man, what shall be made of the wood of the vine, out of all the trees of the woods that are among the trees of the forests?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Fili hominis, quid fiet de ligno vitis, ex omnibus lignis nemorum quæ sunt inter ligna silvarum ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Καὶ σύ, υἱὲ ἀνθρώπου, τί ἂν γένοιτο τὸ ξύλον τῆς ἀμπέλου ἐκ πάντων τῶν ξύλων τῶν ὄντων ἐν τοῖς ξύλοις τοῦ δρυμοῦ;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- בֶּן אָדָ֕ם מַה יִּֽהְיֶ֥ה עֵץ הַגֶּ֖פֶן מִכָּל עֵ֑ץ הַזְּמוֹרָ֕ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר הָיָ֖ה בַּעֲצֵ֥י הַיָּֽעַר
Haydock's commentary
Wood. Small branches or tendrils. The vines of that country were probably small. (Calmet)
The wild vine (Sanctius) grows very large, and the wood is durable, so that statues, pillars, and ladders were formed of it. (Pliny, [Natural History?] xiv. 1.)
Strabo (ii., and xi.) mentions the trunk of a vine which two men could hardly clasp, and the bunch of grapes was two cubits high. But the prophet speaks of the small branches, which are fit only for the fire. (Calmet)
God's Church is often compared to a vine on account of its fruit, and the branches separated form her resemble the useless cuttings. (St. Augustine, tr. lxxxi. in John) (Worthington)
See Ward's Tree of Life, where this is set in a very striking light. In every age the Church makes fresh conquests, while heretics leave and persecute her. (Haydock)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.