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Book of Enoch
Chapter III (3:1)
Observe and see how (in the winter) all the trees ⌈⌈seem as though they had withered and shed all their leaves, except fourteen trees, which do not lose their foliage but retain the old foliage from two to three years till the new comes.
Chapter 24: Of the Incorporating or Compaction of the Stars. (7)
Behold and consider a tree: On the outside it has a hard, gross rind or bark, which is dead, benumbed, and without vegetation—yet not quite dead, but...
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
LXXII. Parables: the Fig Tree in Leaf, Absent Householder and the House Servants, Virgins Wise and Virgins Foolish—"watch and Pray" (1)
NOW learn a parable of the fig tree: Behold the fig tree when her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves; and behold the trees when they now...
Bundahishn
Chapter XXVII (6)
I will mention them also a second time: all whose fruit is not welcome as food of men, and are perennial (sâlvâr), as the cypress, the plane, the...
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (15)
It was with me as with a young tree that is planted in the ground, and at first is young and tender, and flourishing to the eye, especially if it...
The Conference of the Birds
Invocation (27)
In winter he scatters the silver snow; in autumn, the gold of yellow leaves.
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (16)
This tree was also often tempted to try whether it would bear fruit, and shew itself with blossoms; but the blossoms were struck off till this very ti...
Bundahishn
Chapter XXVII (25)
It is concerning plants that every single kind with a drop of water on a twig (teh) they should hold four finger-breadths in front of the fire; Most...
Chapter 4: Of the creation of the Holy Angels. An Instruction or open Gate of Heaven. (41)
View this world diligently, and consider what manner of fruit, sprouts, and branches grow out of the Salitter of the earth, from trees, plants,...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XIII (6)
And he saw. and behold, the land was very wide and good, and everything grew thereon — vines and figs and pomegranates, oaks and ilexes, and terebinth...
Bundahishn
Chapter XXIV (27)
Of trees the myrtle and date, on which model, it is said, trees were formed, are worth all the trees of Khvanîras, except the Gôkard tree with which...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VIII: The Use of the Symbolic Style By Poets and Philosophers. (4)
The branches either stand as the symbol of the first food, or they are that the multitude may know that fruits spring and grow universally, remaining...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XXI (12)
And as regards the wood of the sacrifices, beware lest thou bring (other) wood for the altar in addition to these :* cypress, d&fran, sagad, pine, fir...
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (55)
Then you taste the bitter quality, which makes the tree moveable or stirring, so that it springeth and grows green and flourisheth, and so getteth...
Apocryphon of James
Be Eager for the Word (8)
It is like a palm shoot whose dates dropped around it. It produced buds, and after they grew, its productivity dried up. This is also what happened wi...
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (57)
Now these three qualities would be dark and dead, if the heat were not therein: But as soon as the spring time cometh, that the sun with its beams...
Chapter 4: Of the creation of the Holy Angels. An Instruction or open Gate of Heaven. (47)
For in the divine pomp go forth likewise all manner of sprouting and vegetation of trees, plants and all manner of fruit; and every one bears its own ...
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (54)
Wilt thou not believe this? Then open thy eyes, and go to a tree, look upon it, and bethink thyself; there you see first the whole tree, take a knife...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter II: The Subject of Plagiarisms Resumed. the Greeks Plagiarized From One Another. (4)
The budding wood bears some; in time of spring, They come. So springs one race of men, and one departs."
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XIII (2)
I think he thought that I perhaps might think So many voices issued through those trunks From people who concealed themselves from us; Therefore the...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Flowers, Plants, Fruits, and Trees (21)
Trees are repeatedly mentioned in the Old and New Testaments, and in the scriptures of various pagan nations. The Tree of Life and the Tree of the...
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