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.
Augustine of Hippo
(Quæst. Ev. i. 39.) Or, by the fig tree understand the human race, by reason of the temptations of the flesh. When its branch is fender, i. e. when the sons of men through faith in Christ have progressed towards spiritual fruits, and the honour of their adoption to be the sons of God has shone forth in them.
Source details
A.D. 430 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 24:32-35
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.