“Of all the analogies and parallelisms which make their appearance in the Scriptures, perhaps none is more frequent than that of the tree or vine, which represents Christ, or the Church, or the source of all truth and authority [see John 15:1–4] … .
“Probably the most elaborate and extended analogy developed anywhere in the Scriptures is that of the olive tree, as expounded in Chapters 5 and 6 of the Book of Jacob” (Reynolds and Sjodahl, Commentary on the Book of Mormon, 3:240) .