A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit.
False prophets are false teachers dressed in sheep's clothing but inwardly ravening wolves. Some claim divine warrant they do not have; others preach doctrines contrary to the truth as it is in Jesus. Either way, they come to poison souls under the pretense of healing them.
AI summary
Commenting on Matthew 7:15-20
Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. This is the conclusion of the whole, and a repetition of what is before said, the more to fix the rule of judgment upon their minds, and engage them to try men by their doctrines, and their doctrines by the standard of the Scriptures, and not believe every spirit; for with some care and diligence such persons...
The narrow gate is hardly wide enough to admit one at all; it expresses the difficulty of that first right step in religion, which requires triumph over all our natural inclinations. The wide gate and broad way lure many because they are easily entered and easily trodden.
AI summary
Commenting on Matthew 7:13-29