44For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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.
Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, …
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, …
These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
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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