occurs only in (32:32) It is generally supposed that this passage alludes to the celebrated apples of Sodom, of which Josephus speaks, "which indeed resemble edible fruit in color, but, on being plucked by the hand, are dissolved into smoke and ashes." It has been variously identified. Dr. Robinson pronounced in favor of the osher fruit, the Asclepias (Calotropis) procera of botanists. He says, "The fruit greatly resembles externally a large smooth apple or orange, hanging in clusters of three or four together, and when ripe is of a yellow color. It is now fair and delicious to the eye and soft to the touch but, on being pressed or struck, it explodes with a puff: like a bladder or puff-hall, leaving in the hand only the shreds of the thin rind and a few fibres. It is indeed filled chiefly with air, which gives it the round form." Dr. Hooker writes," The vine of Sodom always thought might refer to Cucumis calocynthis , which is bitter end powders inside; the term vine would scarcely be given to any but a trailing or other plant of the habit of a vine." His remark that the term vine must refer to some plant of the habit of a vine is conclusive against the claims of all the plants hitherto identified with the vine of Sodom.

Demonstration xxi. --Of Persecution.
... For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the planting of Gomorrha.
Their grapes are bitter and their clusters gall unto them. ...
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The Vow of Chastity, and Its Rites in the Law; vines, Christ, and ...
... vine is the devil, who drops down fury and poison and wrath, as Moses relates, writing
concerning him, [2651] "For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of ...
/.../chapter v the vow of chastity.htm

Satan's Banquet
... ye may think yourselves wise for so doing, but we know that after these things there
cometh something worse, for your vine is the vine of Sodom, and of the ...
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St. Ambrose Explains that the Flesh Given to Satan for Destruction ...
... Still more dangerous than these are the incentives of words, which intoxicate
the mind as it were with a kind of wine of the vine of Sodom. ...
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It is Related Also that vinegar was Given Him to Drink, or Wine ...
... thirsty they gave Me vinegar to drink." Agreeably with which Moses, even in his
day, said to the people, "Their vine is of the vineyards of Sodom, and their ...
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The Reaping of the vine.
... Before the destruction of Sodom, Lot is removed to a place of safety. So before
the destruction of the vine of the earth, the righteous are caught up to the ...
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The Scope of the Apocalypse is Indicated by Its Place in the ...
... themselves being judges. For their Vine is of the vine of Sodom, and their
clusters are bitter" (v.31, 32). That this is speaking ...
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The Debt of Iren??us to Justin Martyr
... and who is the expectation of the Gentiles, and what the vine, and what ... And then
the Scripture says: And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and ...
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Demonstration v. --Of Wars.
... For their vines were of the vine of Sodom and of the stock of Gomorrha, a vineyard
[810] in which thorns grew, and which bore wild grapes. ...
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The Evil one Perceived his Great Humiliation, and Boasted Himself ...
... his vineyard he labours. He chooses and plants vine-plants; while his mind
is a vine of the vines of Sodom. He keeps off the wild ...
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