(5) The tender plant, and withers all its shades;

It lies uprooted from its genial bed,

A lovely ruin now defac’d and dead.

(37) But if it is kindled in the Heat and Bitterness, then it infects the Element of Air, whereby is engendered a sudden spreading Plague, and sudden Death. Of the Sour Quality.

(48) And the Lord smote them with malignant ulcers, arid they were not able to stand, for we destroyed them so that they could not perform a single sign.

(3) Presently the fig tree withered away. The disciples saw it, saying, How soon is the fig tree withered away! Jesus answered,

(11) And the prince Maste'ma sent ravens and birds to devour the seed which was sown in the land, in order to destroy the land, and rob the children of men of their labours. Before they could plough in the seed, the ravens picked (it) from the surface of the ground.

(5) That the disturbance which below is made By exhalations of the land and water, (Which far as may be follow after heat,) Might not upon mankind wage any war, This mount ascended tow'rds the heaven so high, And is exempt, from there where it is locked. Now since the universal atmosphere Turns in a circuit with the primal motion Unless the circle is broken on some side, Upon this height, that all is disengaged In living ether, doth this motion strike And make the forest sound, for it is dense; And so much power the stricken plant possesses That with its virtue it impregns the air, And this, revolving, scatters it around; And yonder earth, according as 'tis worthy In self or in its clime, conceives and bears Of divers qualities the divers trees; It should not seem a marvel then on earth, This being heard, whenever any plant Without seed manifest there taketh root. And thou must know, this holy table-land In which thou art is full of every seed, And fruit has in it never gathered there.

(107) But when the bitter Quality rises up therein, then it divides and forms itself, as if it was alive, or lively, or as if the Life did rise up there, in a greenish flourishing Manner and Form, like a green Flash of Lightning, to speak after the Manner of Men, so that it dazzles a Man's Eyes, and blinds him.

(8) When even was come, he went out of the city. In the morning, as they came by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots. And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto Jesus, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away. Jesus answering saith,

(8) but when the sun was up, because it had no depth of earth, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.