Every tree that brings not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
9. Then forasmuch as He had not commanded to punish, but only to beware of them, He, at once both to comfort those whom they vex, and to alarm and change them, set up as a bulwark against them the punishment they should receive at His hands.