Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress [them],.... Plant them and prune them, in expectation of much fruit from them:
but shall neither drink [of] the wine nor gather [the grapes]; so far from drinking of the wine of them, that they should not be able to gather any grapes from them:
for the worms shall eat them; a sort of worms pernicious to vines, which the Greeks call "ipes", or "ikes" o; and the Latins "convolvuli" and "volvoces", as Pliny p.
o See Bochart. Hierozoic. par. 2. l. 4. c. 27. col. 622, 623. p Nat. Hist. l. 17. c. 28.