field planted with vines, which the Latin writers call vinea, (a vineyard;) although it is sometimes taken for vinea a vineyard; as, for example, when Cicero mentions in the same breath, pauperum agellos et VITICULAS, the small fields and SMALL VINEYARDS of the poor. Palmites (branches) are what may be called the arms of the tree, which it sends out above the ground. But as the Greek word κλῆμα sometimes denotes a vine, and ἄμπελος, a vineyard, I am more disposed to adopt the opinion, that Christ