...verse following with its image of fructifying, " 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" The tree is known by fruit ! The sin against the spirit was non-fructification through corrupt manners...

...kingdom Stand? 264 HOMILY XLIL— Matt. xii. 33, 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 frait 26$ HOMILY XLIIL— Matt. idi. 38, 39. Then certain of the Scrihes and Pharisees answered Him,...

...this world, neither in the world to come. 33 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. 34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the...