Matthew 24:32
Douay-Rheims
And from the fig tree learn a parable: When the branch thereof is now tender, and the leaves come forth, you know that summer is nigh.
Hilary of Poitiers
Mystically; The Synagogue is likened to the fig treeg; its branch is Antichrist, the son of the Devil, the portion of sin, the maintainer of the law; when this shall begin to swell and to put forth leaves, then summer is nigh, i. e. the approach of the day of judgment shall be perceived.
Source details
A.D. 367 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 24:32-35
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.