Teks -- Matthew 7:19 (NET)

7:19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

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Wesley: Mat 7:19 - Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire

How dreadful then is the condition of that teacher who hath brought no sinners to God!

JFB: Mat 7:19 - Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire

(See on Mat 3:10).

Clarke: Mat 7:19 - Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit

Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit - What a terrible sentence is this against Christless pastors, and Christless hearers! Every tree that produceth not good fruit, εκκοπτεται, is to be now cut down; the act of excision is now taking place: the curse of the Lord is even now on the head and the heart of every false teacher, and impenitent hearer.

TSK: Mat 7:19 - bringeth

bringeth : Mat 3:10, Mat 21:19, Mat 21:20; Isa 5:5-7, Isa 27:11; Eze 15:2-7; Luk 3:9, Luk 13:6-9; Joh 15:2-6; Heb 6:8; Jud 1:12

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Poole: Mat 7:16-20

Ver. 16-20. A proper effect discovereth the cause. Lest his disciples should ask, How shall we distinguish true from false teachers? Our Saviour tells them, By their fruits ye shall know them. Our Saviour sends not his disciples to inquire into the truth of their mission, whether that more internal from God, of which they could not judge, or more external from men, who may err, and send out those whom God never sent; but you shall know them (saith our Saviour) by their faithful or unfaithful discharge of their duty: if they be true teachers, by their discharging the ministry in a faithful revelation of the mind and will of God, or by their holy life, living as ensamples to the flock; by their fruits of true doctrine and a holy life, by the discharge of their ministry in good conscience; for it is with men as it is with the trees, good trees bring forth good fruit, corrupt trees bring forth evil fruit. If men have the root of the matter; the seed of God abiding in them, they will in every relation bring forth the fruits of truth and holiness: if they have not, they will bring forth error and wickedness. From whence we may learn, that our Lord expecteth from his people such a knowledge of the Scriptures, as that they may be able to discern truth from falsehood; and such a diligence, as to search the Scriptures, whether those things which their teachers deliver to them be according to them or not, Act 17:11 ; not taking divine truths upon trust, nor believing any thing because dictated by teachers, using their teachers not as dictators, but only as helpers of their faith.

Gill: Mat 7:19 - Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit // is hewn down // and cast into the fire

Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit,.... Every preacher and teacher that does not bring the Gospel of Christ with him, and plainly and faithfully preach it to the people, sooner or later,

is hewn down: however he may have appeared as a tall lofty cedar, and have carried it with a high hand against Christ and his Gospel, spoke "great swelling words of vanity", and behaved with much "loftiness" and "haughtiness"; yet the time comes on, when all this is bowed and made low, "and the Lord alone is exalted": such preachers are either cut off from the churches of Christ, or hewn down by death,

and cast into the fire; into the fire of hell; into the lake of fire and brimstone, "where the beast and false prophet shall be".