Matthew 3:10

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV "For every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit shall be hewn down, and cast into the fire; "[100]

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV

that all may know, "that every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit shall be cut down, and cast into the fire."[574]

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V

For that the word of God is likened to an axe, John the Baptist declares [when he says] in reference to it, "But now also is the axe laid to the root of the trees."[153]

Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenaeus "The axe unto the root,"[51]

Tertullian De Corona

There the blood of the Lord serves for your purple robe, and your broad stripe is His own cross; there the axe is already laid to the trunk of the tree;[50]

Tertullian On Repentance

and shall not see fire,"[30]

Tertullian On Repentance

nor "axe."[31]

Tertullian On Exhortation to Chastity

The wood was the old order, which is being pruned down by the new Gospel, in which withal "the axe has been laid at the roots."[30]

Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book V

This, he says, is what is spoken: "Every tree not producing good fruit, is cut down and cast into the fire."[105]

Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book VI

For somewhere near, he says, is the axe (which is laid) at the roots of the tree. Every tree, he says, which does not produce good fruit, is hewn down and cast into fire.[25]

Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews

In the Gospel according to Matthew: "Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit shall be cut down, and cast into the fire."[548]

Pseudo-Cyprian On the Glory of Martyrdom

For things passing away ought not to move us, seeing that they are always being pressed forward to their own overthrow, not only by the law proposed to them, but even by the very end of time. John exclaims, and says, "Now is the axe laid to the root of the tree; "[24]

Origen Commentary on John Book VI

But both classes see John point to the stones aforesaid and declare that even from these children can be raised up to Abraham, rising up out of unconsciousness and deadness. And observe how it is said to the Pharisees,[94]