Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so [can] no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
“Determine the tree good because of good fruit, or the tree bad because of bad fruit; because the tis; from the fruit the tree will be known”
Yet I had planted youi a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are youi turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
He saw a fig tree near the road and drew near to it but found nothing on it except leaves. He said to it: “May fruit never come forth from you”. Immediately the fig tree dried up.
Does a fountain send forth at the same place sweet [water] and bitter?