My brothers, can a fig tree produce olives or a grapevine [produce] figs? Neither can a salt water [spring] produce fresh water.

Does a spring produce [both] fresh water and salt water from the same opening?

As for you, my brethren, bear your sufferings with constancy, till the advent of the Lord. the farmer, from the prospect of a golden crop, patiently expects the showers of the spring and the autumn.

and again he prayed, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth caused its fruit to spring forth.

FROM whence come wars and conflicts among you? spring they not from hence, even from your passions, which war in your members?