“Than he said to his vine‐dresser, ‘Look! for thrie year hae I come, seekin for frute on this fig‐tree, yet find I nane: lat it be cuttit doon! Why soud it tak up the grunʼ?’
The Lord isna sweir anent his promise, as some men speak oʼ sweirness; but is lang‐tholin wiʼ you, no bein willin that ony soud be destroyʼt, but that aʼ soud airt their ways to repentance.