The Antiquities of the Jews, 5.237

Flavius Josephus  translated by William Whiston

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237but when the vine was chosen, it made use of the same words which the fig-tree had used before, and excused itself from accepting the government: and when the olive-tree had done the same, the brier, whom the trees had desired to take the kingdom,

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