3. two olive trees--supplying oil to the bowl. The Holy Ghost, who
fills with His fulness Messiah (the anointed: the "bowl"), from whom
flow supplies of grace to the Church.
by it--literally, "upon it," that is, growing so as somewhat to overtop
it. For the explanation of the "two" see
Zec 4:12, 14.
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