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| Similitude Third. As in Winter Green Trees Cannot Be Distinguished from Withered, So in This World Neither Can the Just from the Unjust.
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Similitude Third.
As in Winter Green Trees Cannot Be Distinguished from
Withered, So in This World Neither Can the Just from the Unjust.
He showed me many trees having no leaves,
but withered, as it seemed to me; for all
were alike. And he said to me, “Do you see those trees?”
“I see, sir,” I replied, “that all are alike,
and withered.” He answered me, and said, “These trees
which you see are those who dwell in this world.” “Why,
then, sir,” I said, “are they withered, as it were, and
alike?”258
| 258 The Vatican
renders this thus: “Why do they resemble those that are, as it were,
withered?” | “Because,” he said, “neither
are the righteous manifest in this life, nor sinners, but they are alike;
for this life is a winter to the righteous, and they do not manifest
themselves, because they dwell with sinners: for as in winter trees that
have cast their leaves are alike, and it is not seen which are dead
and which are living, so in this world neither do the righteous show
themselves, nor sinners, but all are alike one to another.”259
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