“For each tree is known by its own fruit. For they do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.
“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree rotten and its fruit rotten, for a tree is known by its fruit.
“By their fruits you shall know them. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes or figs from thistles?
“So then, by their fruits you shall know them –
My brothers, is a fig tree able to bear olives, or a grapevine figs? So neither is a fountain able to make salt and sweet water.
These are rocky reefs in your love feasts, feasting with you, feeding themselves without fear, waterless clouds borne about by the winds, late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots,