{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"5fddf067e74d742c7a4e862c9286868f5120e39076e14ec91fefdb8da5e6115c","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-anf-3292","native_reference":{"book_number":470,"chapter_from":7,"chapter_to":7,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":18,"verse_to":18},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p>Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II</p><p>For the saying, \"It is not a good tree which produces corrupt fruit, nor a corrupt tree which produces good fruit,\"[116]</p><p>Tertullian Against Hermogenes</p><p>How occurs the seed of what is good, nay, very good, in that which is evil, nay, very evil? Surely a good tree does not produce evil fruit,[131]</p><p>Origen de Principiis Book II</p><p>They again recall us, however, to the words of Scripture, by bringing forward that celebrated question of theirs, affirming that it is written, \"A bad tree cannot produce good fruits; for a tree is known by its fruit.\"[65]</p><p>Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book X</p><p>For it is requisite that the things made should be similar to the maker; wherefore also they thus employ the evangelical parables, saying, \"A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit,\"[19]</p><p>Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes</p><p>namely, that \"a good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.\"[22]</p><p>For who ought to be believed? Should it be those masters of yours whose enjoyment is in the flesh, and who pamper themselves with the richest delights; or our Saviour Jesus Christ, who says, as it is written in the book of the Gospels, \"A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit,\"[101]</p>","source_html_sha256":"fc25593b7902a8f0a6f4d650b1ad26c6a0b99e2680077cb7e53a6f4c5a3a3995","source_module":"ANF","source_row_id":3292,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/anf/","text_sha256":"c44bf9d9843e3d1b731db087dd97e6d420887d58e961ebbf4c4ae7af6955d153","translator":null,"work":null}