{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/barnes/eze015.htm","path":"bib/cmt/barnes/eze015.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/barnes/eze015.htm","text":"Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]\nThe vine ... - The image is grounded on a well-known figure Psa 80:8; Isa. 5. The comparison is not between the vine and other trees, but between the wood of the vine and the wood of other trees.\nBehold, it is cast into the fire - The wood is in itself useless for any purpose; but what if it have been cast into the fire, and half burned, what of it then?\nThey shall go out ... - Rather, they have gone forth from the fire, and the fire shall devour them. The condition of the people is here depicted. The people of Israel - as a whole and as separate kingdoms - had become worthless. The branch torn from the living stem had truly been cast into the fire, which had devoured both ends of it; what remained was a brand plucked from the burning. Those who had escaped the general calamity were reserved for a like fate. Compare Joh 15:6.","title":"Notes on the Bible by Albert Barnes: Ezekiel: Ezekiel Cha...","type":"page"}