Ecclesiasticus 24:13

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Quia hæc erunt in medio terræ
in medio populorum,
quomodo si paucæ olivæ quæ remanserunt
excutiantur ex olea et racemi,
cum fuerit finita vindemia.]

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Quia hæc erunt in medio terræ in medio populorum, quomodo si paucæ olivæ quæ remanserunt excutiantur ex olea et racemi, cum fuerit finita vindemia.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
quia haec erunt in medio terrae, in medio populorum, quomodo si olivae excutiantur, et finita vindemia colligantur racemi.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

there: Isaiah 1:9, Isaiah 6:13, Isaiah 10:20-22, Isaiah 17:5, Isaiah 17:6, Jeremiah 44:28, Ezekiel 6:8-11, Ezekiel 7:16, Ezekiel 9:4-6, Ezekiel 11:16-20, Ezekiel 14:22, Ezekiel 14:23, Micah 2:12, Matthew 24:22, Romans 11:2-6, Revelation 3:4, Revelation 11:2, Revelation 11:3

Reciprocal: Leviticus 19:10 - glean Isaiah 17:4 - the fatness Isaiah 27:12 - beat off Jeremiah 3:14 - one of a city Jeremiah 4:27 - yet Ezekiel 12:16 - I will Obadiah 1:5 - if the Micah 7:1 - as John 10:16 - other Acts 13:47 - that thou Romans 9:27 - a remnant

Gill's Notes on the Bible

When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people,.... When the above judgments shall be executed, the city of Rome shall be destroyed, and the vials of God's wrath are poured but on all the antichristian states, on all the followers of the beast, throughout the whole Romish jurisdiction:

[there shall be] as the shaking of an olive tree, [and] as the gleaning of grapes, when the vintage is done; as when an olive tree is shaken, or beaten with a staff, which was the usual way of gathering olives, and which the word t here signifies, there are some few left upon the uppermost or outermost branches, which cannot be reached; and as, after the vintage is got in, there are some grapes to be gleaned and gathered from the vines; see Isaiah 17:6 so it is here insinuated that there should be some, though but a few, a remnant, according to the election of grace, that should escape the above calamities, and be preserved as a seed for the church of God; and so it will be, that just before the destruction of mystical Babylon, the Lord's people will be called out of her, that they partake not of her sins, and of her plagues, Revelation 18:4. The Targum is,

"for now shall be left alone the righteous in the midst of the earth, among the kingdoms, as the shaking of olives, as the gleaning of grapes after the vintage;''

and to olives and grapes are these gracious persons fitly compared, for the goodness, loveliness, and fruitfulness of them, through the grace of God.

t כנקף זית "similes olivis destrictae oleae", Junius Tremellius "tanquam strictura oleae", Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In the midst of the land - That is, in the midst of the land of Canaan.

There shall be as the shaking of an olive-tree - A few shall be left, as in gathering olives a few will remain on the highest and outermost boughs (see the notes at Isaiah 17:5-6).