Can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? neither {\i can} salt water yield sweet.\par
Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by its fruit.
Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine unto me?
And seeing a fig tree by the way side, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only; and he saith unto it, {\cf6 Let there be no fruit from thee henceforward for ever.} And immediately the fig tree withered away.
Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet {\i water} and bitter?