12Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
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For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. …
Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.
Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? …
Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)The foregoing chapter shows how unprofitable and dead faith is without works. It is plainly intimated by what this chapter first goes upon that such a faith is, however, apt to make men conceited and magisterial in their tempers and their talk. Those who set up faith in the manner the former chapter condemns are most apt to run into those sins of the tongue which this chapter condemns. And indeed…
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