“And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.”
And the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale — the falling stars (Isaiah 34:4 echoed) represent cosmic dissolution; the simile of the shaken fig tree stresses the violence of nature's upheaval, uncontrolled and catastrophic.
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