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Matt, vi, 28. In allusion to the present season of fruits He 

 admonishes His disciples about knowing men by their fruits. In 

 the time of the Passover, when trees put forth their leaves, He 

 bids His disciples ' learn a parable from the hg tree : when its branch 

 is vet tender and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is 

 nigh,' Matt, xxiv, 32 ; Luke xxi, 29." 



We may add to Sir Isaac Xewton's list the following, which 

 relate to events taking place at known seasons of the year : 



Texts. 



A]")proximate 

 Month. 



Eemark? 



|>Matt. XX, 1.., 



(a) "Lambs in the "1 ■ i o 

 midst of wolves.'- j^^^^ke x, 3 



<6) "The Kingdom of 

 Heaven is like unto 

 a man that is a 

 householder, which 

 went out early in 

 the morning to hire 

 labourers into his 

 vineyard." 



(c) " Son, go, work 

 to-<iay in the vine- 

 yard.'' 



(d) " Every branch 

 in Me that beareth 

 not fruit, He taketh 

 it away, and every 

 branch t hat beareth 

 fruit. He purgeth 

 it, that it may bear 

 more fruit." 



Matt, xxi, 28 



[> John XV, 2 



(e) " Every plant 

 which My heavenly 

 F cither hath not 

 planted, shall be 

 rooted up." 



1 

 I 



i^Matt. XV, 13 

 i 



J 



February 



i> March \ 



Be- ! 

 ginning -{ 

 of April j 



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Before sending 

 out the seventy, 

 Luke X, 1 ; probab- 

 ly some little time 

 before the last Pass- 

 over, to allow for 

 their mission and 

 return, Luke x 17. 

 About the lambine 

 season. 



Just before the 

 last Passover. 



A pruning of 

 vines tDok place at 

 this season, Isaiah 

 xviii, 5. 



Just before feed- 

 ing the 5,0(i0, 

 Matt, XV, 32-39, 

 which was about 

 Passover, John vi, 

 4, 11. Tares were 

 separated at har- 

 vest, ]Matt, xiii, 30, 

 which was shortly 

 to come. 



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