For if the firstfruit are holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
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Shepherd of Hermas
AD 150
Upon them, so that the branches could not be seen for the water; and after the branches had drunk it in, he said to me, "Let us go, and return after a few days, and inspect all the branches; for He who created this tree wishes all those to live who received branches
