Already, indeed, the axe is lying at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that fails to bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire."

Then he taught them a lesson thus-- "Look at the fig tree and all the other trees.

Already the axe is lying at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that fails to bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

The immense crowd of people spread their cloaks in the road, while some cut branches off the trees, and spread them on the road.

The man looked up, and said: "I see the people, for, as they walk about, they look to me like trees."

'Do not harm the earth, or the sea, or the trees, until we have sealed the servants of our God upon their foreheads.'

The first blew; and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it fell upon the earth. A third part of the earth was burnt up, and a third of the trees, and every blade of grass.

These men are represented by 'the two olive trees and the two lamps that stand before the Lord of the earth.'

These are the men who are blots upon your 'Love-feasts,' when they feast together and provide without scruple for themselves alone. They are clouds without rain, driven before the winds; they are leafless trees without a vestige of fruit, dead through and through, torn up by the roots;