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Is known (ginōsketai). The fruit of each tree reveals its actual character. It is the final test. This sentence is not in Mat 7:17-20, but the same idea is in the repeated saying (Mat 7:16, Mat 7:20): “By their fruits ye shall know them,” where the verb epigno4sesthe means full knowledge. The question in Mat 7:16 is put here in positive declarative form. The verb is in the plural for “men” or “people,” sullegousin. See note on Mat 7:16.
Bramble bush (batou). Old word, quoted from the lxx in Mar 12:26; Luk 20:37 (from Exodus 3:6) about the burning bush that Moses saw, and by Stephen (Act 7:30, Act 7:35) referring to the same incident. Nowhere else in the N.T. “Galen has a chapter on its medicinal uses, and the medical writings abound in prescriptions of which it is an ingredient” (Vincent).
Gather (trugōsin). A verb common in Greek writers for gathering ripe fruit. In the N.T. only here and Rev 14:18.
Grapes (staphulēn). Cluster of grapes.