“ Doth a fountain send forth at the same placee sweet water and bitter? ”
Doth a fountain send forth at the same place - Margin, “hole.” The Greek word means “opening, fissure,” such as there is in the earth, or in rocks from which a fountain gushes. Sweet water and...
Do not crowd into the ranks of the teachers, my brothers. You know that we teachers shall be judged more severely than other men; and there are many things in which all of us stumble. This leads to t...
send forth . Greek. bruo . Only here. at . out of. App-104. place . hole. Greek. ope . See Hebrews 11:38 (caves). bitter . Greek. pikros. Only here and James 3:14 .
11 Doth a fountain. He adduces these comparisons in order to shew that a cursing tongue is something monstrous, contrary to all nature, and subverts the order everywhere established by God. F...
Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? Doth a fountain send forth - sweet water and bitter? - In many things nature is a sure guide to man; but no such inconsistency i...
Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? Fountain - the heart: as the aperture [so opees ( G3692 ), 'place'] of the fountain represents the month. The image i...
The Control of the Tongue 1, 2. Warning against undue eagerness to teach: cp. Matthew 12:37 ; Matthew 23:7 ; Romans 2:19-20 ; 1 Corinthians 12:28 ; 1 Corinthians 14:26-40 ; Ephesians 4:11 ....
Doth a (or, the ) fountain send forth (literally, spurt ) at the same place (or, hole, see margin) sweet water and bitter ( i.e., fresh water and salt ) ? — A vivid picture, probably, of...
Chapter 15 THE MORAL CONTRADICTIONS IN THE RECKLESS TALKER. James 3:9-12 IN these concluding sentences of the paragraph respecting sins of the tongue St. James does two things-he shows the mor...
Bridle the Tongue James 3:1-12 It is much easier to teach people what they should be and do than to obey our own precepts. Even the best of us stumble in many respects; but our most frequent fa...
The writer now proceeded to show the effect of faith on speech. Beginning with the warning against every man setting up to teach, he proceeded to deal with the power of speech. He likened the tongue...
My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. (2) For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also...
Doth a fountain send forth at the same place ,.... "Or hole"; for at divers places, and at different times, as Pliny m observes, it may send forth sweet [water] and bitter : and it is reported n,...
Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? Ver. 11. Doth a fountain send forth ] The fountain, or rather the botch, of sensual and sinful pleasures doth. Sin is a bitt...
Doth a fountain send forth at the same opening, alternately, and at different times, sweet water and bitter As if he had said, No such inconsistency is found in the natural world, and nothing of...
Here we begin a fourth division of the book, which continues to the end of Ch.4; in which our walk is tested by the circumstances of the world. Certainly in the previous Chapter s there is emphasis a...
Government of the Tongue. A. D. 61. 1 My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall...
Ordinarily and naturally; if any such be, it is looked upon as uncouth and prodigious.
‘Does the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter?' The writer now illustrates the matter in different ways. The ‘coming forth' from the mouth and the ‘blessing and cursing'...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES James 3:5 . A matter. —Better, “a forest.” The picture presented is of the wrapping of some vast forest in a flame by the falling of a single spark. Philo uses th...
James 3:1 . Be not many masters: διδασκαλοι, teachers. In some assemblies they might all prophesy one by one, but no man should be too forward; he will never shine as a teacher, unless he be a t...
EXPOSITION James 3:1-59 WARNING AGAINST OVER - READINESS TO TEACH , LEADING TO A DISCOURSE ON THE IMPORTANCE OF GOVERNMENT OF THE TONGUE . James 3:1 (...
Warning against the abuse of the tongue:
James 3:11