_Heinsius_,[235] who thinks that _Elias_ must salve the doubt, according to the received Reading of the Text, undertaketh to vary the same, reading οὕ γὰρ ἦν, καιρὸς σύκων, that is, _for where he was, it was the season or time of Figgs_. [235] Heinsius _in_ Nonnum. A learned Interpreter[236] of our own, without alteration of accents or words, endeavours to salve all, by another interpretation of the same, Οὐ γὰρ καιρὸς σύκων, _For it was not a good or seasonable year for Figgs_. [236] D. Hammond. But, because men part not easily with old beliefs, or the received construction of words, we shall briefly set down what may be alledged for it. And, first, for the better comprehension of all deductions hereupon, we may consider the several differences and distinctions both of Figg Trees and their Fruits. _Suidas_ upon the word Ἰschὰs makes four divisions of Figgs, Ὄλυνθος, Φήληξ, Σῦκον and Ἰschὰs. But because Φήληξ makes no considerable distinction, learned men do chiefly insist upon the three others; that is, Ὄλυνθος, or _Grossus_, which are the Buttons, or small sort of Figgs, either not ripe, or not ordinarily proceeding to ripeness, but fall away at least in the greatest part, and especially in sharp Winters; which are also named Συκάδες, and distinguished from the Fruit of the wild Figg, or _Caprificus_, which is named Ἐρινεὸς, and never cometh unto ripeness. The second is called Σῦκον, or _Ficus_, which commonly proceedeth unto ripeness in its due season. A third the ripe Figg dried, which maketh the Ἰσχάδες, or _Carrier_. Of Figg Trees there are also many divisions; For some are _prodromi_, or precocious, which bear Fruit very early, whether they bear once, or oftner in the year; some are _protericæ_, which are the most early of the precocious Trees, and bear soonest of any; some are _æstivæ_, which bear in the common season of the Summer, and some _serotinæ_ which bear very late. Some are _biferous_ and _triferous_, which bear twice or thrice in the year, and some are of the ordinary standing course, which make up the expected season of Figgs. Again some Figg Trees, either in their proper kind, or fertility in some single ones, do bear Fruit or rudiments of Fruit all the year long; as is annually observable in some kind of Figg Trees in hot and proper regions; and may also be observed in some Figg Trees of more temperate Countries, in years of no great disadvantage, wherein, when the Summer-ripe Figg is past, others begin to appear, and so, standing in Buttons all the Winter, do either fall away before the Spring, or else proceed to ripeness. Now, according to these distinctions, we may measure the intent of the Text, and endeavour to make out the expression. For, considering the diversity of these Trees, and their several fructifications, probable or possible it is, that some thereof were implied, and may literally afford a solution.