And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
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Irenaeus of Lyons
AD 202
"But thou, being a wild olive-tree "he says, "hast been grafted into the good olive-tree, and been made a partaker of the fatness of the olive-tree.