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Septuagint |
John
15 |
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‘I
planted a fruit-bearing (καρποφορον) vine (αμπελον),
altogether true (αληθινην)’ (Jer. 2.21) |
‘I
am the vine (η αμπελος) the true one (η
αληθινη)’ (v. 1) |
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‘the
vine (η αμπελος) . . . sent forth her
branches (κληματα) . . . to bear fruit (φερειν καρπον)’
(Ezek. 17.7-8) ‘Israel is a vine (αμπελος) with excellent
branches (ευκληματουσα), her fruit (καρπος) is abundant: according
to the multitude of her fruit is (καρπων) she has multiplied
[her] altars’ (Hos. 10.1) |
‘every
branch (κλημα) that bears fruit (καρπον φερον)’
(v. 2) |
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‘fire
consumes its yearly pruning (καθαρσιν)’ (Ezek. 15.4) |
‘he
prunes (καθαιρει) (every fruit-bearing branch)’ (v. 2); ‘you are
clean (καθαροι)’ (v. 3) |
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‘[the
vine’s] branches (κληματα) (Ezek. 17.7) |
‘you
are the branches (κληματα)’ (v. 5) |
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‘the
multitude of her branches (καρπων)’ (Hos. 10.1) |
‘the
one who abides in me . . . bears much fruit (κληματα)’ (v. 5) |
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‘her
early shoots shall be dried up (ξηρανθησεται)’ (Ezek. 17.9) |
‘as
the branch and it is dried up (εξηρανθη)’ (v. 6) |
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‘the
vine’s (αμπελου) . . . branches (κληματων) . . . [are] given to
the fire (πυρι) to be consumed’ (Ezek. 15.2-4) ‘the east wind dried up (εξηρανε)
her choice [branches] . . . fire (πυρ) consumed her’ (Ezek.
19.12) |
‘they
are cast not the fire (εις το πυρ)
and burned’ (v. 6) |
(Craig A. Evans, Word and Glory: On the Exegetical and Theological Background of John’s Prologue [Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series 59; Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1993], 39)