"A green olive tree"; which is a very choice and fruitful tree has:
- fatness in it
- produces an excellent oil
- is beautiful to look at
- delights in hot climates and sunny places
- is found on mountains
- we read of the Mount of Olives in the Bible
- is ever green and durable
- its leaves and branches are symbols of peace
- the excellent of the earth
- are filled with the fruits of righteousness
- are fat and flourishing
- have the oil of grace - the anointing which teaches all things
- are a perfection of beauty - made perfectly comely through Christ's comeliness
- thrive under him - the sun of righteousness
- grow in the mountain of the Lord's house - the church
- their grace is incorruptible
- their leaf withers not
- they are rooted in Christ and ever continue
- they are the sons and daughters of peace
- their last end will be eternal peace.
adapted from Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
A green tree is the emblem of prosperity.
I am safe and happy...I have been kept unharmed, like a green and flourishing tree...protected in the very courts of the sanctuary - safe under the care and the eye of God. A green tree is the emblem of prosperity. adapted from Barnes Notes
Those who by faith and love dwell in the house of God, shall be like green olive-trees there. And that we may be as green olive-trees, we must live a life of faith and holy confidence in God and his grace. Matthew Henry's Bible Commentary
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