Fruits And Pigs

Sunt enim qui fructum non faciunt: sunt qui faciunt, sed non suum: sunt qui faciunt suum, sed non in tempore suo. Sunt, inquam, arbores infructuosae, ut quercus et ulmus, et silverstres aliae arbores; sed hujusmodi nemo plantat in horto suo, quia non faciunt fructum: et si quem facuint, non humano esui aptus est, sed porcino. Tales sunt filii hujus saeculi, agentes in comessationibus et ebrietatibus, in crapula et voracitate, in cubilibus et impudiciitiis. Haec namque porcorum cibus sunt, quos Judaeus verus prohibetur comedere, Christianus scilicet, qui his non debet adhaerere. Sicut enim caro procina cum comeditur, nostrae adhaeret carni, ut jam sit una caro, sic transgressor praecepti Dominici spurcos sibi sociat spiritus, et adhaerendo eis unus cum eis efficitur daemon. Nam et idcirco in sacrificiis prohibetur animal illud offerri, quod spurcos spiritus immundosque designet; qui relicta omni munditia, solis sibi in spurcitiis complacentes, vitiorum et criminum semper coeno delectantur involvi. Unde et in Evangelio, legio illa maledicta, dum ejiceretur ab homine, tanquam simile sibi animal procos postulat, nec negantur. His fructum ferunt arbores infructuosae, ad quarum radices securis posita jam videtur. Sanctus Bernardus Clarae Vallensis, Sermo In Natali Sancti Benedicti Abbatis Source: Migne PL 183.378b-d

There are trees which give no fruit, there are those which give but not their own, and there are those which give their fruit but not in their time. 1 There are those, I say, who are unfruitful trees, like the oak and the elm, and other trees of the wood, which no man plants in his garden because they give no fruit, and if they do give something, it is not fit for human consumption but for pigs. Such are the sons of the world, active in feasting and ebriety, and drunkeness and gluttony, in indolence and shamelessness. For this food is of the pigs, which the true Jew is prohibited to eat, 2 that is, the Christian, who should not parake of these things. For as pig flesh when eaten adheres to our flesh, that it becomes one flesh, so the trespasser of the command of the Lord associates himself with foul spirits and adhering to them he is made one demon with them. So in sacrifice it is not permitted that one offer that which is designated to have an unclean spirit, they who with all cleanliness lost please themselves alone in filth, they who delight to be embroiled in the feast of vices and crimes. Whence in the Gospel that cursed legion, when it is being cast out of the man, asks for the pigs, as animal like itself, nor is it denied. 3 This is the fruit of fruitless trees, to the root of which the axe is already seen to be placed. 4 Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, from a Sermon on The Feast Day Of Saint Benedict 1 Ps 106.4 2 Deut 14.8 3 Mk 5.1-13 4 Lk 3.9