Joseph [is] a fruitful bough, [even] a fruitful bough by a well; [whose] branches run over the wall:
Ver. 22. Joseph is a fruitful bough.] Of the vine, saith the Chaldee Paraphrast. But it may be, Jacob meant it of the Egyptian fig tree, whereof Solinus reporteth that it beareth fruit seven times in the year; pull one fig, and another presently puts forth, saith he. a
a Uno anno septies fructus sufficit. Unde pomum decerpseris, alterum sine mora protuberat. - Solin.