Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book VIII and did not discover (any). Wherefore, he says, He cursed the fig-tree,[8] Peter of Alexandria Canonical Epistle and the leopard's spots, it shall be said, as it was spoken to another fig-tree, "Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever; and it presently withered away."[8] Methodius Discourse X. Domnina But when the Lord dried up the false branches, the imitations of the true branches, uttering the sentence against the bitter fig-tree, "Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever,"[17]