Burning The Tree

Omnis ergo arbor quae non facit fructum bonum... Mala arbor fructus malos facit. Fructus eorum inutiltes, et acerbi ad manducandum. Excidetur. Succide eam: ut quid etiam terram occupat? Duplici enim ex causa exciditur, scilicet, si nullos, et si malos fructus facit.  Nonne radicem eius evellet, et fructus eius distringer, et siccabit omnes palmites germinis eius, et arescent. Descendit vigil, et sanctus de coelo, et clamavit fortiter, et ait: Succidite arborem, et praecidite ramos eius, et excutite folia eius, et dispergite fructus eius. Et in ignem mittetur. Uniuscuiusque quale fit opus ignis comprobabit. Succensa est ab heri Tophet: nurtimenta eius ignis, et ligna multa: et flatus Domini sicut torrens sulphuris succendens eam. Mittetur foras, et arescet: et colligent eum, et in ignem mittent: et ardet. Sanctus Albertus Magnus Commentarium in Mattheum, Cap III Source: Volumen 9, pdf p30

Therefore every tree which does not give good fruit... 1 The bad tree produces bad fruit. 'Their fruit is useless, and bitter for the eating.' 2 Shall be cut down... 'Cut it down, why should it have a place on the earth?' 3 So for two reasons the tree is cut down: that is, if it produces no fruit, or if it produces bad fruit. 'Its roots shall be torn up, and its fruit pulled off, and every shoot of its seed shall dry up.' 4 'And in my vigil a holy one came down from heaven and he cried out: Cut down the tree, cut off its branches, strip off the leaves, scatter the fruit.' 5 And it shall be sent to the fire... 'What the work of each one is shall be proved by fire.' 6 'Since yesterday Tophet has been kindled, fed with flaming wood in abundance; and the breath of the Lord like a stream of brimstone inflames it.' 7  'The branch shall be cast out and it shall wither; and they shall gather it and they shall send it into the fire, and it shall burn.' 8 Saint Albert The Great, Commentary On The Gospel of St Matthew, Chap 3 1 Mt 3.10 2 Wisdom 4.5 3 Lk 13.7 4 Ezek 17.9 5. Dan 4.10-11 6 1 Cor 3.13 7 Isaiah 30.33 8 Jn 15.6