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Used in these topics: Testing teaching and spiritual discernment
OET-LV A_ good _tree is_ not _able to_bear evil fruits, nor a_ bad _tree to_be_producing good fruits.
For many years, English versions and Christians have commonly referred to Matthew 5–7 as “The Sermon on the Mount.” In some translations, it may be helpful to include a heading for chapters 5–7 that is on a level above the section heading for 5:1–12.
Here are some other possible headings for this section:
The Sermon on the Mountain
The sermon that Jesus preached on a mountain
Jesus taught people on the side of a mountain/hill
A good tree cannot bear bad fruit,
A good tree is not able to produce bad fruit,
A good tree does not produce worthless fruit.
and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.
and a bad tree is not able to produce good fruit.
A rotten tree does not produce tasty fruit.
Verse 7:18 is a Jewish way to emphasize 7:17. It does this by stating that the opposites of 7:17a–b do not happen.
cannot bear…cannot bear: The Greek phrase that the BSB translates as cannot is more literally “not able.”
Here are some other ways to translate this phrase:
does not
is not possible
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / exmetaphor
οὐ δύναται δένδρον ἀγαθὸν καρποὺς πονηροὺς ποιεῖν, οὐδὲ δένδρον σαπρὸν καρποὺς καλοὺς ποιεῖν
(Some words not found in SR-GNT: οὒ δύναται δένδρον Ἀγαθόν καρπούς πονηρούς ἐνεγκεῖν οὐδέ δένδρον σαπρόν καρπούς καλούς ποιεῖν)
Here Jesus continues to speak of people as if they were plants that produced fruits. Express the idea as you did in the previous verse 7:17. Alternate translation: [A good tree is not able to produce bad fruits, nor a rotten tree to produce good fruits. Similarly, believers do not do what is wrong, and unbelievers do not do what is right]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis
οὐδὲ δένδρον σαπρὸν
(Some words not found in SR-GNT: οὒ δύναται δένδρον Ἀγαθόν καρπούς πονηρούς ἐνεγκεῖν οὐδέ δένδρον σαπρόν καρπούς καλούς ποιεῖν)
Jesus is leaving out some of the words that in many languages a sentence would need in order to be complete. You could supply these words from earlier in the sentence if it would be clearer in your language. Alternate translation: [nor is a rotten tree able]
OET-LV A_ good _tree is_ not _able to_bear evil fruits, nor a_ bad _tree to_be_producing good fruits.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the CNTR.
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