Anf-02 vi.iii.ii.v Pg 4.2
Anf-03 v.iv.ii.ii Pg 5
St. Luke vi. 43 sq.
how that “the good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit, neither the corrupt tree good fruit.” Which means, that an honest mind and good faith cannot produce evil deeds, any more than an evil disposition can produce good deeds. Now (like many other persons now-a-days, especially those who have an heretical proclivity), while morbidly brooding2351 2351 Languens.
over the question of the origin of evil, his perception became blunted by the very irregularity of his researches; and when he found the Creator declaring, “I am He that createth evil,”2352 2352
Anf-03 iv.xi.xxi Pg 8
Luke vi. 43, 44.
If so, then “God will not be able any longer to raise up from the stones children unto Abraham; nor to make a generation of vipers bring forth fruits of repentance.”1658 1658
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 6
VERSE (43) - Ps 92:12-14 Isa 5:4; 61:3 Jer 2:21 Mt 3:10; 7:16-20; 12:33