Albert Barnes on Matthew 7:17
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Matthew7:17
A corrupt tree. The word corrupt here does not signify, as our translation would seem to indicate, that the tree had been good, but had become vitiated; but that it was a tree of a useless character, of a nature that produces nothing beneficial.
(f) "good tree" Lk 6:43, 45
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