Verse 1
“-and my Father is the vinedresser.”
And just as God tended, and then dealt severely, with the false vine of old, now He will tend the true vine. He will watch over it and do all that is necessary for it to flourish, and because it is the true vine it will be fruitful (see Isaiah 27:2-6). The picture is of the tenderness of God on behalf of the vine, but also of His severe activity in rejecting what is false. For even here the unfruitful branches are cut off and cast into the fire. The new Israel is to come out of the old which will have been refined by fire (Zechariah 13:7-9; Malachi 4:1-3; Isaiah 6:13).
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