Adam and Eve, our famous ancestors is in the descent in sin, which became covered with the leaves of this tree [fig] deserved to be outcasts from Heaven, when, conscious of their transgression , tried to escape the presence of the Lord, who was walking, they had to symbolize what had to happen, namely that in recent times the people of the Jews, now the eve of the coming of the Lord of salvation, which came down here to call them, recognizing naked of all virtue to the temptations of the devil and full of fear for the discoveries of obscenities consciousness, having lost the path of religion, he felt ashamed for his transgression, he had run away from God, the shame of his actions covered by the veil of words I would say unnecessary, as many leaves.
is then that they, who had issued from the fig tree does not fruit, but leaves were struck by the Kingdom of God, and they were a living soul. It was the second Adam, and was no longer in search of foliage, but fruit, and it was life-giving spirit (1 Cor 15, 45).
But the result is achieved in the spirit of virtue, and he loves the Lord. Yet the Lord was looking for the fruit, not because it ignores the fig tree that lacks them, but because he wanted to see a symbol that the synagogue was now producing fruit. Moreover, in what comes after, he proves not to be reached before time, because it was for a period of three years, so in fact you can find: Here are three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree and find none. Cut it down then, because it's up to occupy the land?
He came to Abraham, came to Moses, came to Mary, was the target, was in the law came into body. We recognize the benefits coming from: there is a purification, sanctification in the other, the other still justified. Circumcision purified, sanctified the Law, grace justified: He alone is all these things, and all these things are one. In fact no one can become the world except the one who fears the Lord. No one deserves to receive the Law unless it has been cleansed from the guilt and no one approaches the grace if you do not know the law. So the Jewish people could not be purified, because he had the circumcision of the body, but not the soul, nor could he be sanctified, because the power of the law was unknown, since which followed the requirements carnal rather than spiritual ones - but the law is spiritual - or could be justified, not because he repented of his sins and therefore was unaware of grace. Rightly therefore did not find any fruit in the synagogue and is commanded to cut off.
But the good farmer, and I would say the one in which there is the foundation of the Church, having the feeling that another was to be sent to the Gentiles, he to the people instead of circumcision, is interposed piously asking that it not be cut because it was safe according to their vocation that the Jewish people could be saved through the Church, and for this reason he says: Let it also This year, why dig around and put a basket of manure.
How did early to recognize that the causes of infertility are hardening, and the pride of the Jews!
And therefore know how to cultivate it knows how to find the weaknesses. He ensures that the hard clods of their hearts must be hoes with the flukes of the apostles, that the word, sharp on one side and the other, reverses the wasteland of the spirit, cracked the long abandonment, opening the heart and stimulates sensitivity now live for the spiritual crack that opened so that the enormous weight of the earth and bury and hide from view the root of wisdom. Says well you need to shed a basket of fertilizer is so great and the strength of the fertilizer that makes fruitful the barren plantations, verdant those dry, barren fruitful ones. Job sat on it when it was tried, and could not be won, and Paul considers the rest of manure, in order to gain Christ. In the end, Job was the first suffered many losses, but after it sat on fertilizer, no longer had any property that the devil might take away. So what is a good land comes Zappata, effective the fertilizer you spread.
Moreover, the Lord raises the poor from the dust, lifts the poor from the fertilizer (Ps 112, 7).
Therefore, the worthy farmer think through the hard work of the intellect and the spiritual feeling of humility, even the Jews became fruitful to further the Gospel of Christ. ...
But what is said of the Jews, I consider that everyone should look, and especially us, because, devoid of any merit, there happen to exploit the fertile soil of the Church, but rather, blessed as pomegranates, we must bear fruit inner purity of fruit, fruit of good harmony, the fruits of charity and love, the only remaining enclosed within the womb of Mother Church, so that no wind damage, hail no floor, the burning heat of passion burn there , water sconquassi storms there.
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