I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. John xv. 1.
The beauty of the Great Teacher's forcible metaphors is often lost by careless readers, who do not analyze and synthesize as they read.
Here the vine is the servant of man. He plants, prunes, and nourishes, that the vine may be of more service to him. The earth eventually receives all that is put forth through the instrumentality of the vine.
