I am the true vine and my Father is the vine-dresser.

One has no encouragement to take pains with one's vineyard," said a vine-dresser. "

Andreas Franz stated his profession as cooper and vine-dresser.

Now he bore a pruning-hook, and personated a vine-dresser; and again with a ladder on his shoulder, he seemed as if he was going to gather apples.

But he pruned with his pruning hook the fruitful branches remaining in the vine that they might bear more fruit and their fruit ripened and gave joy to the vine-dresser."

And when you want to keep a pruning-hook safe, then justice is useful to the individual and to the state; but when you want to use it, then the art of the vine-dresser?

It is derived from two sources: First, it is "an occupational name for a vine-dresser or vintner, from Middle High German rebe 'vine' + -er agent suffix."

After working as a vine-dresser and then as a goldsmith, he became a traveling doctor, and displayed great skill in disputations on medical subjects; but his controversial power soon found a wider field for its exercise in the great theological question of the time.

Back to Contents Anglo-Saxon Technology David Hill Continuing his occasional series on early technologies which began with the winepress in issue 6, the author now turns his attention to the Anglo-Saxon oxcart of c.1000 AD and the vine-dresser's knife.

Written in the form of a conversation between a Thracian vine-dresser on the shore of the Hellespont and a Phoenician merchant who derives his knowledge from the hero Protesilaus, Palamedes is exalted at the expense of Odysseus, and Homer's unfairness to him is attacked.

"A likely precaution for a simple vine-grower of Calabria!

The son of a vine-grower, he at first laboured in the fields, and did not begin his studies till the age of seventeen.

Vine-grower or duke, king or swineherd, princess of magic or homeless beggar, all would be on an equal footing to the gods' weapons.

Palmer was a large vine-grower in the Gironde, and on the death of hs father became the proprietor of the Bath Theatre Royal.

Not obedience to the institution of the church, not obedience to your minister the vine-grower, but obedience to the unique authority of the Son of God.

In his work "Second Tableau - Right Group" four men and a woman represent Australian industry: a gold-digger, vine-grower, reaper, and a shearer and gleaner.

No longer would that lovely creature be nameless to me - she confided with a blush that she was Yasma, and was the daughter of Abthar, the vine-grower.

In 1862 a local wine merchant, Mr. Borty, received a case containing rooted American vines from a New York vine-grower, Mr. Carle.

For the vine-grower in anything cooler than a warm or hot climate, Merlot is much easier to ripen than Cabernet Sauvignon, and has the further advantage of yielding a little higher to boot.

There he exhibited bronze statues of "The Young Vine-Grower", "Génie Funèbre", "Peace" and "Genius in the Grasp of Misery", for which he received a bronze medal.

The small village provides a typical image of the Provence of Frédéric Mistral, with vine-grower's houses built around a castle, and a town square and fountain shaded by hundred year-old plane trees.

I am the true vine, and my father is the vinedresser.

So, does the vinedresser throw them away?

But as a vinedresser, only occasionally a winemaker, not really a fisherman, Humbert had no boat.

Our heavenly vinedresser may prune us by exposing us to challenging personal relationships.

Imagery (ie., the image of a divine reality): life as vine, branch and vinedresser.

The disciples are warned that barren branches are pruned by the vinedresser.

The tree was meant to bear the good fruit of the Holy Spirit and the gardener (vinedresser) is Jesus.

The gardener (vinedresser) is God and the vine is Jesus (tree of Life).

The vinedresser for the vineyard was John James Dufour, formerly of Vevey, Switzerland.

Shall a man not eat bread till he has seen the sower, nor drink wine till he has talked with the vinedresser?'

In April 1849 the Beulah was the first ship to bring assisted German vinedresser families to NSW.

On the night before he died, after the last Supper he confided to his apostles these astonishing words: I am the vine and my Father is the vinedresser.

Imagery The same three protagonists as in Jn 5, but with images attached: Father/Vinedresser, Son/Vine, Christians/branches.

Camden Estate was first planted by Martin Thurn, a German vinedresser who helped the Macarthurs establish the first commercial Australian vineyard in 1817.

Mark Pedley also uses a number of pseudonyms, including "Tzemach Ben David Netzer Korem" and "Branch Vinedresser".

I see that as safer than if every small-time vinedresser or winegrower decides for himself and ends up on a steep slope right in a cloud of the plant protection agent he is spraying.

The barque Kinnear arrived at Sydney carrying six German vinedresser families who were one of the first group of foreign immigrants brought to Australia under the newly formed Bounty Scheme.

If we are part of the vine, then God the Father is the vinedresser, who ensures our continued fruitfulness by pruning away the barren branches and trimming clean the fruitful ones to make them even more fruitful.

One possible place of origin is the Church of Timothy in the Monastery of the Vinedresser, a Coptic Monastery probably destroyed during the Muslim persecutions of the 14th Century CE.

Is it not he who says: "My Father is the vinedresser,[43] and in various ways puts into his teaching the fundamental truth about work which is already expressed in the whole tradition of the Old Testament, beginning with the Book of Genesis?

Mark Logan Pedley (born 19 July 1953), later changed to Mark Wellington, (also known as "Tzemach Ben David Netzer Korem" and "Branch Vinedresser"; Branch Vinedresser being a translation of his Hebrew name Tzemach Korem).