Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
The fig tree
Bible References
The fig tree
Matthew 7:16
By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather a bunch of grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?
Matthew 12:33
Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by the fruit.
Luke 6:43
For there is no good tree which produceth fruit of a bad quality; neither doth a tree of a bad sort produce good fruit.
Romans 11:16
Now if the first fruits be holy, so is the mass: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.