Bible Dictionary: The Vine: Often Degenerated

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Isaiah 5:2
And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the middle of it, and also made a wine press therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
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Jeremiah 2:21
Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are you turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine to me?
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Library

Match-Making.
... too often, into a degenerate vine. ... The drunkard, falling in the mire, often thinks
that he ... intermarry, until their descendants have degenerated into complete ...
/.../philips/the christian home/chapter xxiii match-making.htm

The Stage as it was Once.
... dark-green boughs among, Or sheltered 'neath the clustering vine Which, high ... Doubtless
the idea that man was like a god degenerated too often into the idea ...
/.../kingsley/lectures delivered in america in 1874/lecture ii the stage as.htm

Pride of Prosperity
... dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under ... Often these alliances were sealed
by marriages with heathen ... and most merciful of rulers, he degenerated into a ...
/.../white/the story of prophets and kings/chapter 3 pride of prosperity.htm

"There is Therefore Now no Condemnation to them which are in ...
... Nay, this makes me often suspect my delivery from wrath and ... He is the vine tree,
and we are branches planted ... olives, growing up in the stock of degenerated Adam ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/sermon i there is therefore.htm

An Earnest Warning About Lukewarmness
... In process of time it degenerated, and cooling down from its ... If a vine wants the
knife, it is not the ... Sorrow is often brought upon Christians by the sins of ...
/.../spurgeons sermons volume 20 1874/an earnest warning about lukewarmness.htm

The Way to Honor
... may also be the truth that masters have degenerated too ... Often Paul calls himself
the servant the Lord, and even the ... my sheep." If they have trimmed a vine or a ...
//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/sermons on proverbs/the way to honor.htm

The Ancient Form of Government Utterly Corrupted by the Tyranny of ...
... himself out as a ploughman or vine-dresser; or a ... the institution of Christ, have
so degenerated from the ... that their venerable hierarchy has often been extolled ...
/.../calvin/the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 5 the ancient form.htm

Of the Five Sacraments, Falsely So Called. Their Spuriousness ...
... all ages, and cures their sicknesses as often as there ... customs were either changed,
or had degenerated into superstition ... that whenever we see a vine, the best ...
/.../calvin/the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 19 of the five.htm

The Nile and Egypt
... which recalls the shrewd face of an old French peasant, is often lighted up by ... in
it an ancient custom which in the course of centuries has degenerated into a ...
/.../chapter i the nile and egypt.htm

The Transformation of Rome from a Pagan into a Christian City.
... view which its ruins command of the vine-clad slopes ... the celebration of the office
was often disturbed by ... The gatherings degenerated into the display of such ...
/.../lanciani/pagan and christian rome/chapter i the transformation of.htm

Subtopics

The Vine of Christ

The Vine of Israel

The Vine of Sodom Bad and Unfit for Use

The Vine: (Its Fruitful Branches) of Saints

The Vine: (Its Quick Growth) of the Growth of Saints in Grace

The Vine: (Its Rich Clusters) of the Graces of the Church

The Vine: (Of Unfruitful Branches) Mere Professors

The Vine: (Pruning of) God's Purifying his People by Afflictions

The Vine: (Sitting Under One's Own) Peace and Prosperity

The Vine: (Unfruitful) the Wicked

The Vine: (Worthlessness of Its Wood) the Unprofitableness, of