The Vineyard

After the Flood had receded God said to Noah like he said to 
Adam. "Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth".
That was in Genesis 9:1.

In Genesis 9:20 we read:
" And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:"

The word vineyard occurs often in the Bible. Jesus used it 
to tell a parable:
"There was a man who planted a vineyard, and let it out to some 
vine-dressers, while he went away to spend a long time abroad.  
¹⁰ And when the season came, he sent one of his servants on an 
errand to the vine-dressers, bidding them pay him his share of the
vineyard’s revenues. Whereupon the vine-dressers beat him, and
sent him away empty-handed.  
¹¹ Then he sent another servant; and him too they sent away 
empty-handed, beating him first, and insulting him.  
¹² Then he sent a third; and they drove him away wounded, like
the others.  
¹³ So the owner of the vineyard said, What am I to do? I will send 
my well-beloved son, perhaps they will have reverence for him.
¹⁴ But the vine-dressers, on seeing him, debated thus among 
themselves; This is the heir, let us kill him, so that his inheritance  may pass into our hands.  
¹⁵ And they thrust him out of the vineyard and killed him. And 
now, what will the owner of the vineyard do to them?  
¹⁶ He will come and make an end of those vine-dressers, and give 
his vineyard to others."  

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In Jerusalem (Erdman 185) Blake wrote:
"And the soft smile of friendship & the open dawn of benevolence
Become a net & a trap, & every energy renderd cruel,
Till the existence of friendship & benevolence is denied:

The wine of the Spirit & the vineyards of the Holy-One.
Here: turn into poisonous stupor & deadly intoxication:
That they may be condemnd by Law & the Lamb of God be slain!
And the two Sources of Life in Eternity[,] Hunting and War,
Are become the Sources of dark & bitter Death & of
corroding Hell"

From The French Revolution (Erdman 289-90):
"Then the ancientest Peer, Duke of Burgundy, rose from the 
Monarch's right hand, red as wines
From his mountains, an odor of war, like a ripe 

vineyard, rose from his garments,
And the chamber became as a clouded sky; o'er the 

council he stretch'd his red limbs,
Cloth'd in flames of crimson, as a ripe vineyard 

stretches over sheaves of corn,
The fierce Duke hung over the council; around him 

croud, weeping in his burning robe,"

The primary product of the vineyard of course is wine; the two
words are closely related.  Ecclesiastically wine symbolizes the
blood of the Lamb.  This led Blake to make the immortal
statement:

"& Throughout all Eternity
I forgive you you forgive me
As our dear Redeemer said
This the Wine & this the Bread"
(Erdman 477)