A citation from the library
Jerome, on Matt 12:33
Jerome · c. A.D. 347–420
Matt 12:33 · Douay-Rheims
“Either make the tree good and its fruit good: or make the tree evil, and its fruit evil. For by the fruit the tree is known.”
On this verse:
“Thus He holds them in a syllogism which the Greeks call ‘Aphycton,’ the unavoidable; which shuts in the person questioned on both sides, and presses him with either horn. If, He saith, the Devil be evil, he cannot do good works; so that if the works you see be good, it follows that the Devil was not the agent thereof. For it cannot be that good should come of evil, or evil of good.”
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.