Treating the Further Decay by Grafting and Burning

Part of: The Olive Tree Allegory

• The exasperated master proposes to cut down all the trees and burn them.
• The servant suggest waiting a little longer.
• The master agrees, and plans to take out the offshoots and graft them back into the tree that they came from, and take out the wild branches from that tree.
• They act according to plan, re–grafting all branches back to their original tree.
• On second thought, the master tells the servant not to remove all the wild branches, only the very worst ones.

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