His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
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Ephrem The Syrian
AD 373
These words mean that the punishment of the impious will be similar to the massacre of the Sodomites. “Their roots dry beneath, and their branches wither above” so that nothing useful to the impious may remain anywhere, beneath or above the ground.