16Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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.
Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-20)We have here a caution against false prophets , to take heed that we be not deceived and imposed upon by them. Prophets are properly such as foretel things to come; there are some mentioned in the Old Testament, who pretended to that without warrant, and the event disproved their pretensions, as Zedekiah, 1 Kgs. 22:11; and another Zedekiah, Jer. 29:21. But prophets did also teach the people their…
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