Bible Studies/Fig Tree

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Expert: - 9/30/2007


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Why does a fig tree bear figs but never blooms before bearing the fruit like other fruit trees?

Answer
My understanding of the fig tree blossom is not that it doesn't bloom before the fruit.  But rather that the blossoms are unique in that the floral axis turns inward instead of outward as most other fruit trees do.   It is the small internal blossoms that we consider the sweet fruit.

There are other strange "fruit" in God's creation.  I also seem to recall that the cashew, which we call a nut, is a part of a flowering blossom.

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Dean Gade

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I can answer questions concerning the translating of specific words and translations of the New Testament. I can give the etemology of Greek words, primarily in the Koine Greek, but also in Classical Greek. I can also give explanations of much of the Bible having read it many times and written many Bible studies.

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I studied Greek in earning my BA at a university and my DTh. and MDiv. at an accredited seminary. I was a diviity student at both the university and seminary, spending most of those eight years studying the Bible.

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