圣经中的果树：无花果树、橄榄树、葡萄树、石榴树等

The Bible’s chief fruit trees are the fig, the olive, the vine and the pomegranate, the trees Moses promised Israel in the good land. The date palm, the almond, the apple, the sycomore fig, the walnut and the pistachio appear too, and Jesus’ parable of the prodigal son adds the carob, whose pods fed the pigs. These were the trees of home. When the prophets pictured peace, they pictured a family sitting in the shade of its own trees: “they…