James 3:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh. ”

James 3:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Can the fig-tree, my brethren, bear olive-berries? - Such a thing is impossible in nature, and equally absurd in morals. A fig-tree bears only figs; and so the tongue ought to give utterance only...
James 3:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
James 3:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Can, &c . Question preceded by me . olive berries . olives. so, &c . The texts read "neither (Greek. oute) can salt water bring forth, or produce, sweet".
James 3:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh. So can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh - For the reading of t...
James 3:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

So can no fountain both yield, &c.— "Full as inconsistent is it to suppose, that a man's heart, the fountain whence all his words proceed, should habitually vent itself in ways of talking, whic...
James 3:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh. Transition from the month to the heart. Can the fig tree ... - a...
James 3:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 ....
James 3:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Can the fig-tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? — Read, Can a fig-tree bear olives, or a vine, figs? The inquiry sounds like a memory of our Lord’s, “Do men gather grapes...
James 3:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
James 3:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
James 3:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
James 3:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
James 3:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries ?.... Every tree bears fruit, according to its kind; a fig tree produces figs, and an olive tree olive berries; a fig tree does not produce olive be...
James 3:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh. Ver. 12. Both yield salt water and fresh ] That is strange that is re...
James 3:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
James 3:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
James 3:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Government of the Tongue. A. D. 61. 1 My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall...
James 3:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Can the tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? The same tree cannot ordinarily bring forth fruit of different kinds, (on the same branch, whatever it may on different, by ingra...
James 3:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Neither can salt water yield sweet.' And he closes off the series with an illustration. Each thing in nature produces according to it natu...
James 3:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 3:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
James 3:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

Therewith bless we God The moral contradictions in the reckless talker In these concluding sentences of the paragraph respecting sins of the tongue St. James does two things--he shows the mora...
James 3:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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 (...
James 3:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Warning against the abuse of the tongue:
James 3:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 2:19-22 ; Exodus 15:23-25 ; Ezekiel 47:8-11 ; Isaiah 5:2-4 ; Jeremiah 2:21 ; Luke 6:43 ; Luke 6:44 ; Matthew 12:33 ; Matthew 7:16-20 ; Romans 11:16-18

James 3:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

James 3:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

James 3:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

James 3:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

James 3:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

James 3:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

James 3:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

James 3:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

James 3:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

James 3:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

James 3:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

James 3:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James 3:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

James 3:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

James 3:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

James 3:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

James 3:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

James 3:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

James 3:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

James 3:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

James 3:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

James 3:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

James 3:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

James 3:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

James 3:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge