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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO
ST MATTHEW
CHAPTER 7
  16 Ye shall aknow them by their bfruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

Footnotes
16a
GR recognize, detect.
b
Prov. 20: 11.
  11 Even a child is known by his adoings, whether his bwork be pure, and whether it be right.
Jer. 28: 9 (8-9).
  9 The prophet which aprophesieth of bpeace, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, then shall the cprophet be known, that the Lord hath truly sent him.
Luke 6: 44.
  44 For every tree is known by his own afruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.
Moro. 7: 6 (5-17).
  6 For behold, God hath said a man being aevil cannot do that which is good; for if he boffereth a gift, or cprayeth unto God, except he shall do it with real dintent it profiteth him nothing.