...mentioned in the most ancient fable on record, twelve hundred years before the Christian era, — " If not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Libanon," (Judges 9th chap.) About 700 years BC, they are called " the cedars of Libanon, high and...

...was pleased with " Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us. And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint...of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.*" The pertinency and force of this beautiful parable, the oldest extant, hardly needs illustration. It...

...bramble, Come thou and reign over us. And the bramble said," (brambles can talk, yea, too well,) " unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow.'' (Judges ix. 12, ifec.) The bramble calls his kingship a shadow ! So that, by his own confession, emptiness...

...over the trees? — Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us. And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint...devour the cedars of Lebanon." (Judges ix. 8 — 15.) This is one of the most beautiful and instructive parables in the whole of the Divine Word, equally...

...the sceptre, except the Bramble, it spoke, and said, " If in truth ye anoint me king over you, come, put your trust in my shadow ; and if not, let FIRE...of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon." Reader, I quote this parable from the sacred testimony, for the sole purpose of asking a question,...

...unto the bramble, Come thou, and reien over us. 15 And tlie bramble said unto the trees, If in (null R+p R+ [Q+ aod if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars* of Lebanon. 16 Now therefore,...

...in their application — " If ye truly intend to anoint me king over you, come, take shelter under my shadow ; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon." That they might be at no loss to understand his meaning, Jotham gave the obvious " moral," in which...

...over the trees ? 14 Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us. 15 And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint...of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon. 16 Now therefore, if ye have done truly and sincerely, in that ye have made Abimelech king, and if...

...promoted over the trees ? Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us. And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint...of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.' This parable was spoken by Jotham, to reprove the men of Shechem for making Abimelech their king ;...

...over the trees ? 14 Then said all the trees unto the Bramble, Come thou, and reign over us. 15 And the oat of the Bramble, and devour the Cedars of Lebanon. 16 Now therefore, if ye have done truly and sincerely,...