43For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
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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?
Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? …
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.
And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 37-49)All these sayings of Christ we had before in Matthew; some of them in Matt. 7:1-29, others in other places. They were sayings that Christ often used; they needed only to be mentioned, it was easy to apply them. Grotius thinks that we need not be critical here in seeking for the coherence: they are golden sentences, like Solomon’s proverbs or parables. Let us observe here, I. We ought to be very ca…
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