Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
Justified, and not by faith only - i:e., by 'faith severed from works,' its proper fruits (note, James 2:20). Faith, to justify, must, from the first, include obedience in germ (to be developed subsequently), though the former alone is the ground of justification. The scion must be rafted on the stock, that it may live; it must bring forth fruit, to prove that it does live.