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.
Jerome
As much as to say, When the tender shoots first shew themselves in the stem of the fig tree, and the bud bursts into flower, and the bark puts forth leaves, ye perceive the approach of summer and the season of spring and growth; so when ye shall see all these things that are written, do not suppose that the end of the world is immediate, but that certain monitory signs and precursors are shewing its approach.
Source details
A.D. 420 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 24:32-35
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.