for each tree from its own fruit is known, for not from thorns do they gather figs, nor from a bramble do they crop a grape.
`Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad, for from the fruit is the tree known.
From their fruits ye shall know them; do `men' gather from thorns grapes? or from thistles figs?
therefore from their fruits ye shall know them.
is a fig-tree able, my brethren, olives to make? or a vine figs? so no fountain salt and sweet water `is able' to make.
These are in your love-feasts craggy rocks; feasting together with you, without fear shepherding themselves; clouds without water, by winds carried about; trees autumnal, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up;