Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.

The boughs

Bible References

The boughs

Matthew 3:10
But already the ax is laid to the root of the trees; therefore every tree not producing good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire.
John 15:6
If any one may not abide in me, he is cast out as a branch, and withered; and they gather it, and cast it into the fire, and it is burnt.

For it is

Matthew 13:15
Because the heart of this people is waxed gross, and they heard heavily with their ears, and closed their eyes; lest they may see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I shall heal them.
Romans 1:28
And as they did not approve to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are inappropriate;