| Show f biblical fruit not the apple of modern modem times time the apple Is so common and at the banjo time so highly esteemed a fruit that the action of the translators of the bible in translating the hebrew heb b T word apple need not ot be wondered at evidently the was a well known cultivated tree in the holy land with I 1 u i sweet S w ee t f fragrant r rant strengthening fruit song of solomon 35 78 85 and a tree giving shade therefore of some size according to joel 1 12 it was a tree so well known so useful that its withering was a calamity a curse to the country to our translators the apple would be just such a tree to english speaking pe people 0 and so we have the word in our bibles apple Ss Is often used figuratively figu by english people as 01 oak apple for afie the oak gall the apple of the cne cc rose apple etc so befitting any round fruit or thing thin and so might have seemed to the mal linkers ers of our authorized version a good loosely fitting name to apply to the unknown fruit that it was correctly applied Is not possible the climate clin inte of pales tine is too hot for the tree which chic h thrives in more northerly temperatures up north of palestine in syria near damascus it is found and bears fruit are a few apple trees here and there in the holy land but these are usually barren are of late post christian days and ale aie by no means highly esteemed montreal V on t real family herald |
