unnatural, implacable, slanderers, intemperate, inhuman, averse to goodness, treacherous, wilful, puffed up [with pride], lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God;

Out of the same mouth goeth forth blessing and cursing. These things, my brethren, ought not to be thus. Doth a fountain from the same aperture spout forth sweet water and bitter? Can a fig-tree, my brethren, produce olives; or a vine figs? so also can no fountain send forth salt water and sweet.

as obedient children, not conformed to the former passions of the days of your ignorance:

So every good tree beareth good fruits; but every bad tree in kind, produceth bad fruits.

but emptied himself, assuming the form of a servant, made after the similitude of mortal men;

He must grow great, but I diminutive.