Grafting
“the olive metaphor”
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 5 anchored passages
grafting · the grafted olive · the slip · the wild olive
in the texts
Stromata
An extended horticultural metaphor for how philosophy and the nations are incorporated into faith and knowledge of Christ.
So too the philosopher, likened to the wild olive, having much that is undigested, by reason of being inquisitive and easy to follow up and craving the fatness of the truth — if he take besides the divine power through faith, planted in the kindly and cultivated knowledge, like the wild olive grafted into the truly noble and merciful Word, both digests the nourishment delivered and becomes a good olive.
And the grafting spoken of by the apostle, into the good olive, may be into Christ himself, the savage and unbelieving nature being planted into Christ — that is, into those who believe in Christ;
For instance, the wild olive is grafted into the fatness of the olive, and indeed grows of the same kind with the cultivated olives;
Letters to Lucilius
Agricultural technique of grafting a new shoot onto a vine, used as an analogy for attempting to reform a corrupted character.
I desire, by Hercules, that your friend be moulded, as you wish, and trained;
Not every vine endures grafting;