I am the true vine: and my Father is the husbandman.

The command is really no more than to be a branch of the true vine.

The vine leaves flowing from the lamb may symbolise the branches springing from the true vine.

We thus continue branches of the ' true vine.'

Yea, at that day, will they not receive the strength and nourishment from the true vine?

This was not true happiness, and the vine of the Palestine vineyards was not the true vine.

A true vine would never want-orbe able-tohustle enough to flower sordid dollars instead of curls and blushes.

You who were a branch of the true vine, have cut yourself off from it with the knife of self-love.

Again, St. John alone speaks of our Lord as representing Himself to be the true vine, and His people as the branches.

And in the fifteenth chapter of John the first six verses we read, I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

Christ has said, 'I am the vine,' and unless we get the children, attached to this true vine, their lives cannot bear Christian fruit.

So Gaius said to them, Drink freely; this is the juice of the true vine, that makes glad the heart of God and man (Judg.

1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.

We are branches of the True Vine, which is sprung out of the earth and spread abroad.

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In the beautiful language of metaphor the Saviour says, I am the true Vine and My Father is the husbandman.