Deuteronomy 28:39
Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.
Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them,.... Plant them and prune them, in expectation of much fruit from them:
but shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes; so far from drinking of the wine of them, that they should not be able to gather any grapes from them:
for the worms shall eat them; a sort of worms pernicious to vines, which the Greeks call "ipes", or "ikes" {o}; and the Latins "convolvuli" and "volvoces", as Pliny {p}.
{o} See Bochart. Hierozoic. par. 2. l. 4. c. 27. col. 622, 623.
{p} Nat. Hist. l. 17. c. 28.
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