James 3:11
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 rock...
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...
send forth . Greek. bruo . Only here. at . out of. App-104. place . hole. Greek. ope . See Hebrews 11:38 (caves). bitter . Greek. pikros....
11 Doth a fountain. He adduces these comparisons in order to shew that a cursing tongue is something monstrous, contrary to all nature, and s...
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 i...
Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? Fountain - the heart: as the aperture [so opees ( G3692 ), 'place']...
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...
Doth a (or, the ) fountain send forth (literally, spurt ) at the same place (or, hole, see margin) sweet water and bitter ( i.e., fresh w...
Chapter 15 THE MORAL CONTRADICTIONS IN THE RECKLESS TALKER. James 3:9-12 IN these concluding sentences of the paragraph respecting sins of the...
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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 dea...
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...
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...
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, o...
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 inconsiste...
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. Certa...
Government of the Tongue. A. D. 61. 1 My bre...
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 fo...
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...
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...
EXPOSITION James 3:1-59 WARNING AGAINST OVER - READINESS TO TEACH , LEADING TO A DISCOURSE ON THE IMPORTANCE OF GO...
Warning against the abuse of the tongue:
Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
11 Doth a fountain send forth at the same placee sweet water and bitter?