Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Matthew 7:19
Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
19. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, &c.] To this day in the East trees are valued only so far as they produce fruit.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 19. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit] What a terrible sentence is this against Christless pastors, and Christless hearers! Every tree that produceth not good fruit, , is to be now cut down; the act of excision is now taking place: the curse of the Lord is even now on the head and the heart of every false teacher, and impenitent hearer.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
19. Every tree that bringeth notforth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire(See onMt 3:10).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit,…. Every preacher and teacher that does not bring the Gospel of Christ with him, and plainly and faithfully preach it to the people, sooner or later,
is hewn down: however he may have appeared as a tall lofty cedar, and have carried it with a high hand against Christ and his Gospel, spoke “great swelling words of vanity”, and behaved with much “loftiness” and “haughtiness”; yet the time comes on, when all this is bowed and made low, “and the Lord alone is exalted”: such preachers are either cut off from the churches of Christ, or hewn down by death,
and cast into the fire; into the fire of hell; into the lake of fire and brimstone, “where the beast and false prophet shall be”.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
1) “Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit,” (pan dendron me poioun karpou kalo n) “Every tree that does not regularly produce ideal fruit;” Each tree that is sterile, bears no useful fruit, season after season, offers nothing to its landlord; This is that unregenerate person whose rootstock of life is “at enmity with God;” He is not subject to the law of God, and does not respond to the influence of the Word, the quickening of the spirit, a new birth or new nature, so that he can bring forth good fruit, Rom 8:7; Heb 3:7-8; Rev 22:17; Jas 1:21; 2Co 5:17. “If any man have not the spirit of Christ he is none of his,” cannot bear good fruit, see?
2) “Is hewn down,” (ekkoptetai) “is cut down,” or comes to be cut down, removed as an obstruction, deadweight, and expense to the owner, the Landlord. Every tree that is good by nature, that has a new engrafted nature, bears some good fruit, but the old nature, a child of God by wrath, can never produce any Godly fruit. God calls, convicts the sinner, and when he is cut down in life, yet a rebel, he goes to hell, Eph 2:3; Pro 1:20-27.
3) “And cast into the fire.” (kai eis pur balletai) “And is thrown into the fire,” to be destroyed, to be removed as an enemy, a hindrance to and leech on the landlord’s property. Jesus thus appeals to His disciples to cultivate much good fruit-bearing for their Lord; but He made it clear that those snake-hearted hypocrites, like Judas Iscariot within the church, and the Pharisees and Sadducees, pious religious people without the church, who could bear only polluted fruit, or no fruit of good nature at all, would finally be cast into hell, Joh 15:2; Joh 15:4; Joh 15:8; Gal 5:22-23; 2Pe 1:4-9 commend good fruit. The following passages show that the bad fruit or no fruit root-stock tree, representing sinners by nature, who choose to remain that way through life, will be cast into the fires of helI at the end, even as the rich man, Luk 16:25-31; Mat 3:10; Mat 10:28; Luk 13:7; Mat 25:41-46.
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
(19) Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit.The crowds who listened must, for the most part, have recognised the words as those which they had heard before from the lips of the Baptist, and they served accordingly as a link connecting the teaching of our Lord with that of the forerunner. (Comp. Mat. 3:10.)
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
19. Hewn down See note on Mat 3:10.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
The end of the imposters
v. 19. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire.
v. 20. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. So far as the test of trees is concerned, men’s judgment in their case is so definite and absolute that they do not hesitate to cut down and burn a bad tree, knowing very well that it is beyond all possibility for that tree to bring forth good fruit the next year. But this judgment will strike also those that are guilty of false teaching and living, whose fruits must finally reveal the condition of their hearts. Theirs will be the punishment of the fire of hell. In the meantime the Christians must not forget their duty to test and examine the doctrine and the works of the false teachers, lest they become guilty of laxness in spiritual matters. “No false doctrine or heresy has ever originated without having had this sign which He here indicates, that they have produced other works than those commanded and ordained by God… Let him that wants to judge correctly do as Christ here teaches him, and take their works and fruits, holding them beside God’s Word and commandments; then he will soon see how well they agree… Thus thou hast a sure judgment which cannot fail, as Christ teaches thee to know them by their fruits. For I also have read up about all heretics and sects, and have found that they always made and brought forth something different from that which God commanded and enjoined, the one in this, the other in that article. The one has prohibited eating all things; a second, marriage; a third has condemned all government, every one choosing his own; and I conclude that they all walk on this path.”
Fuente: The Popular Commentary on the Bible by Kretzmann
Mat 7:19 . Simply a thought introduced by the way (not as being necessary for the logical connection of Mat 7:16-20 ), and pointing to the condemnation to Gehenna which awaits the false prophets. Comp. with Mat 3:10 .
Fuente: Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer’s New Testament Commentary
19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
Ver. 19. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, &c. ] Fruitless trees are cut down to the fire. Short shooting loseth many a game. The idle servant is delivered to the tormentors; and unsavoury salt is cast out to be trodden on, as Ecebolius was. The barren earth “is nigh to cursing, whose end is to be burned,” Heb 6:8 . Pure gold discovers deadly poison. For there will sparkle out of the cup certain rainbows, as it were, and there will be heard, saith one, a fiery hissing of the gold thrusting out the poison. Whereby is signified, saith he, that God threateneth judgment and hell fire to those that corrupt and poison heavenly doctrine. See more of this above, Mat 3:10 . Let us study and strive to resemble the tree of Paradise, that was fair to the eye and good to eat; and that tree of life, Rev 22:2 , that bringeth forth every month, twelve manner of fruits, &c, And those trees, Psa 92:13 , that being planted in the house of the Lord, bring forth best fruit in their old age. “I am like a green olive tree,” saith David. Our bed is of green cedar, saith the spouse. Ephraim was like a green fir tree, fat and sappy, &c., Psa 52:8 ; Son 1:16-17 Hos 14:8 . Barrenness is no less a fault than ill fruit.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Mat 7:19 . en look on this as so certain that they do not hesitate to cut down and burn a degenerate tree, as if it were possible it might bring forth good fruit next year. , if it do not, that once ascertained. Weiss thinks this verse is imported from Mat 3:10 , and foreign to the connection.
Fuente: The Expositors Greek Testament by Robertson
Mat 7:19. , a tree) The allegory is continued.
Fuente: Gnomon of the New Testament
bringeth: Mat 3:10, Mat 21:19, Mat 21:20, Isa 5:5-7, Isa 27:11, Eze 15:2-7, Luk 3:9, Luk 13:6-9, Joh 15:2-6, Heb 6:8, Jud 1:12
Reciprocal: Dan 4:14 – Hew Mat 15:17 – that Mar 11:14 – No Luk 13:7 – cut Joh 15:6 – he Tit 3:14 – that
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
7:19
In the literal field, a farmer will remove an evil tree to make room in his orchard for a good one, and will do away with the bad tree by burning it. The lesson is that if men do not bear good fruit, which means to practice good deeds while in this life, the great Owner of the garden will cast them into fire.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
Mat 7:19. The figure is carried further to show the awful destiny of the false teachers.
Every tree, irrespective of its kind in this case, that bringeth not forth good fruit, is entirely barren. All is here made dependent on the fruitfulness.Is hewn down and cast into the fire. Such trees can only be used for fuel. The same language was used by John the Baptist (Mat 3:10) in a wider application, which holds good still.
Fuente: A Popular Commentary on the New Testament
Verse 19
Is hewn down and cast into the fire; that is, is to be terribly destroyed. This expression, as well as all the other language which the Savior uses in respect to the end of those who persist in impenitence and sin, shows that he looked forward, not to their ultimate restoration to God and to happiness, but to their hopeless and final ruin. Thus, in Matthew 7:13, the broad way is represented as leading to destruction. In this case, the awful denunciation seems to be particularly applied to false teachers; to those, who, to please their hearers, or for any other unworthy motive, preach what they secretly know is not true. They are trees producing corrupt and poisonous fruits, and they are destined to be hewn down and cast into the fire.
Matthew 7:24-27. That is, the faith which manifests itself in obedience is the only faith which can save the soul. Our Savior changed ceremonial observances, but he gave new force and authority to moral law. The strictness of our obedience to this law, as Jesus illustrated and enforced it, is the test by which we are to judge of the true character of the faith which we profess to exercise.