but when it is sown, it groweth up and becomes greater than all herbaceous plants, and produceth vast branches; so that the birds of the air may roost under the shadow of it.

Salt is good: but if the salt become insipid, with what will you season it? have salt in yourselves, and live in peace with each other.

Have ye never read this scripture? "The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner:

Now learn from the fig-tree, a parable; When her branch is now become tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh;