Note 3 — THE HERMIT AND THE FIG-TREE.
Reading edition
“Nevertheless, it is as I say; and if the season of figs were not just over, according to our Lord’s saying, by their fruit you should know them, or, as you say in the world, “al freir, lo vereis3.” Meantime, learn, my son, not to judge of men and things by their appearance, but wait and see what their fruit is like.”