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.
They say, then, that the grafting comes about in four ways:
For instance, the wild olive is grafted into the fatness of the olive, and indeed grows of the same kind with the cultivated olives;
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;
Letters to Lucilius
Agricultural technique of grafting a new shoot onto a vine, used as an analogy for attempting to reform a corrupted character.
Not every vine endures grafting;
I desire, by Hercules, that your friend be moulded, as you wish, and trained;