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Eze 15:2 Strong Concordance Son [01121] of man [0120], What is the vine [01612] tree [06086] more than any tree [06086], or than a branch [02156] which is among the trees [06086] of the forest [03293]?
  King James Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest?

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
THE WORTHLESSNESS OF THE VINE AS WOOD ESPECIALLY WHEN BURNT, IS THE IMAGE OF THE WORTHLESSNESS AND GUILT OF THE JEWS, WHO SHALL PASS FROM ONE FIRE TO ANOTHER. (Eze 15:1-8)

What has the vine-wood to make it pre-eminent above other forest-wood? Nothing. Nay, the reverse. Other trees yield useful timber, but vine-wood is soft, brittle, crooked, and seldom large; not so much as a "pin" (the large wooden peg used inside houses in the East to hang household articles on, Isa 22:23-25) can be made of it. Its sole excellency is that it should bear fruit; when it does not bear fruit, it is not only not better, but inferior to other trees: so if God's people lose their distinctive excellency by not bearing fruits of righteousness, they are more unprofitable than the worldly (Deu 32:32), for they are the vine; the sole end of their being is to bear fruit to His glory (Psa 80:8-9; Isa 5:1, &c.; Jer 2:21; Hos 10:1; Mat 21:33). In all respects, except in their being planted by God, the Jews were inferior to other nations, as Egypt, Babylon, &c., for example, in antiquity, extent of territory, resources, military power, attainments in arts and sciences.

or than a branch--rather, in apposition with "the vine tree." Omit "or than." What superiority has the vine if it be but a branch among the trees of the forest, that is, if, as having no fruit, it lies cut down among other woods of trees?
 
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33 Hear [191] another [243] parable [3850]: There was [2258] a certain [444] [5100] householder [3617], which [3748] planted [5452] a vineyard [290], and [2532] hedged [5418] it [846] round about [4060], and [2532] digged [3736] a winepress [3025] in [1722] it [846], and [2532] built [3618] a tower [4444], and [2532] let [1554] it [846] out [1554] to husbandmen [1092], and [2532] went into a far country [589]:
1 Israel [03478] is an empty [01238] vine [01612], he bringeth forth [07737] fruit [06529] unto himself: according to the multitude [07230] of his fruit [06529] he hath increased [07235] the altars [04196]; according to the goodness [02896] of his land [0776] they have made goodly [02895] images [04676].
21 Yet I had planted [05193] thee a noble vine [08321], wholly a right [0571] seed [02233]: how then art thou turned [02015] into the degenerate plant [05494] of a strange [05237] vine [01612] unto me?
1 Now will I sing [07891] to my wellbeloved [03039] a song [07892] of my beloved [01730] touching his vineyard [03754]. My wellbeloved [03039] hath a vineyard [03754] in a very fruitful [01121] [08081] hill [07161]:
8 Thou hast brought [05265] a vine [01612] out of Egypt [04714]: thou hast cast out [01644] the heathen [01471], and planted [05193] it.
9 Thou preparedst [06437] room before [06440] it, and didst cause it to take deep [08328] root [08327], and it filled [04390] the land [0776].
32 For their vine [01612] is of the vine [01612] of Sodom [05467], and of the fields [07709] of Gomorrah [06017]: their grapes [06025] are grapes [06025] of gall [07219], their clusters [0811] are bitter [04846]:
23 And I will fasten [08628] him as a nail [03489] in a sure [0539] place [04725]; and he shall be for a glorious [03519] throne [03678] to his father's [01] house [01004].
24 And they shall hang [08518] upon him all the glory [03519] of his father's [01] house [01004], the offspring [06631] and the issue [06849], all vessels [03627] of small [06996] quantity, from the vessels [03627] of cups [0101], even to all the vessels [03627] of flagons [05035].
25 In that day [03117], saith [05002] the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635], shall the nail [03489] that is fastened [08628] in the sure [0539] place [04725] be removed [04185], and be cut down [01438], and fall [05307]; and the burden [04853] that was upon it shall be cut off [03772]: for the LORD [03068] hath spoken [01696] it.
1 And the word [01697] of the LORD [03068] came unto me, saying [0559],
2 Son [01121] of man [0120], What is the vine [01612] tree [06086] more than any tree [06086], or than a branch [02156] which is among the trees [06086] of the forest [03293]?
3 Shall wood [06086] be taken [03947] thereof to do [06213] any work [04399]? or will men take [03947] a pin [03489] of it to hang [08518] any vessel [03627] thereon?
4 Behold, it is cast [05414] into the fire [0784] for fuel [0402]; the fire [0784] devoureth [0398] both [08147] the ends [07098] of it, and the midst [08432] of it is burned [02787]. Is it meet [06743] for any work [04399]?
5 Behold, when it was whole [08549], it was meet [06213] for no work [04399]: how much less shall it be meet [06213] yet for any work [04399], when the fire [0784] hath devoured [0398] it, and it is burned [02787]?
6 Therefore thus saith [0559] the Lord [0136] GOD [03069]; As the vine [01612] tree [06086] among the trees [06086] of the forest [03293], which I have given [05414] to the fire [0784] for fuel [0402], so will I give [05414] the inhabitants [03427] of Jerusalem [03389].
7 And I will set [05414] my face [06440] against them; they shall go out [03318] from one fire [0784], and another fire [0784] shall devour [0398] them; and ye shall know [03045] that I am the LORD [03068], when I set [07760] my face [06440] against them.
8 And I will make [05414] the land [0776] desolate [08077], because they have committed [04603] a trespass [04604], saith [05002] the Lord [0136] GOD [03069].
8 Thou hast brought [05265] a vine [01612] out of Egypt [04714]: thou hast cast out [01644] the heathen [01471], and planted [05193] it.