Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
James 3:11
Ordinarily and naturally; if any such be, it is looked upon as uncouth and prodigious.
Ordinarily and naturally; if any such be, it is looked upon as uncouth and prodigious.
Verse 11. _DOTH A FOUNTAIN SEND FORTH - SWEET_ WATER _AND BITTER?_] In many things _nature_ is a sure guide to man; but no such inconsistency is found in the natural world as this blessing and cursin...
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 BITTER...
III. THE EVILS OF THE TONGUE CORRECTED CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The tongue and its work (James 3:1)_ 2. The wisdom which is earthly and the wisdom that is from above (James 3:13) James 3:1 The practical cha...
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 th...
THE TEACHER'S PERIL (James 3:1) _ 3:1 My brothers, it is a mistake for many of you to become teachers, for you must be well aware that those of us who teach will receive a greater condemnation._ In...
With it we bless the Lord and Father and with it we curse the men who have been made in the likeness of God. From the same mouth there emerge blessing and cursing. These things should not be so, my br...
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....
_Doth a fountain_ The Greek gives the article, THE FOUNTAIN, as more emphatically generalising the question. _send forth at the same place_ Both verb and noun in the Greek are more vivid. Our word SPU...
2–12. FROM THIS THOUGHT OF THE TEACHING OFFICE AND ITS RESPONSIBILITIES AND FAILURES THERE IS A NATURAL TRANSITION TO THE USE AND GOVERNMENT OF THE TONGUE. Yet so passionate and agitated is the rebuk...
ΜΉΤΙ Ἡ ΠΗΓῊ Κ.Τ.Λ. An argument from natural analogy. This inconsistency of blessing and cursing with the same mouth is unnatural. We are reminded of Aristotle’s argument against usury—the unnaturalnes...
_CONSTANT IN TAMING -- JAMES 3:7-12:_ Man has had success in taming or subduing all of creation, except the tongue. He has had no success in the effort to tame that one thing. The tongue is a restless...
ΜΉΤΙ (G3385), частица используется в вопросе, на который ожидается ответ "нет" (Mussner). ΠΗΓΉ (G4077) источник, фонтан, колодец. Это слово используется с определенным артиклем; предполагается, что д...
MR. TWO-FACED _Text 3:9-12_ 9. Therewith bless we the Lord and Father; and therewith curse we men, who are made after the likeness of God: 10. Out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and curs...
CHAPTER VI _THE FOOLISH TEACHER_ James 3:1-12 _Introduction_ In James 1:16; James 1:26 James said Be swift to hear, slow to speak. In a sense, the balance of chapter one develops the thought of how...
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 is appropriate...
VERSE 11. DOTH A FOUNTAIN SEND FORTH AT THE SAME PLACE? Here a question is asked. Knowledge concerning the matter about which the interrogatory is propounded is so common and so universal among men th...
20 The case of Abraham is most helpful in further defining the distinct viewpoints of Paul and James. The former refers us to the fifteenth chapter of Genesis, the latter to the twenty-second. In the...
THE CONTROL OF THE TONGUE 1, 2. Warning against undue eagerness to teach: cp. Matthew 12:37; Matthew 23:7; Romans 2:19; 1 Corinth
WHAT *FAITH SHOULD DO JAMES _IAN MACKERVOY_ The word list at the end explains words with a *star by them. CHAPTER 3 RESPONSIBILITY OF THE TEACHER 3:1-5A V1 My Christian brothers and sisters,...
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 the mine...
CHAPTER 15 THE MORAL CONTRADICTIONS IN THE RECKLESS TALKER. James 3:9 IN these concluding sentences of the paragraph respecting sins of the tongue St. James does two things-he shows the moral chaos...
μήτι ἡ πηγὴ … τὸ πικρόν : these words show that the writer is thinking of the real source whence both good and evil words come; _cf._ Matthew 12:34-35 : _Ye offspring of vipers, how can ye, being evil...
James 3:1-18 form a self-contained section; the subject dealt with is the bridling of the tongue, see above James 1:19; James 1:26-27....
BRIDLE THE TONGUE James 3:1 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 failures ar...
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 t...
NO ONE CAN TAME THE TONGUE Mankind has been able to subdue all the animals, but not his tongue. Woods notes that the verb indicates momentary action in regard to taming. One may control his tongue for...
By it we bless God, &c. Such different effects from the same cause, as of blessing God, and cursing men, created to the likeness of God, seem contrary to the ordinary course of nature; from a fountain...
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...
To the reader who enters on the consideration of the epistle of James from the epistles of Paul, the change is great and sudden, and by no means least of all from the epistle to the Hebrews, which, in...
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. For God h...
In Chapter 3 the apostle recurs to the tongue, the most ready index to the heart, the proof whether the new man is inaction, whether nature and self-will are under restraint. But there is hardly anyth...
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, there...
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 bitter...
_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 t...
The stream must answer to the FOUNTAIN, the fruit to the TREE. The heart that sends forth the bitter water of curses towards men, cannot have the good water of love towards God. Its professions of lov...
Warning against the abuse of the tongue:...
DOTH A FOUNTAIN SEND FORTH AT THE SAME PLACE SWEET WATER AND BITTER?...
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 al...
Explain the illustration of the water from a spring....
PLACE: Or, hole...
ILLUSTRATIONS Let the reader be impressed with the type of illustrations which James presents to illustrate the previous point. They are very simple, easy to understand, and within the knowledge of m...
1-12 We are taught to dread an unruly tongue, as one of the greatest evils. The affairs of mankind are thrown into confusion by the tongues of men. Every age of the world, and every condition of life...
James 3:11 Does G3385 spring G4077 forth G1032 (G5719) fresh G1099 and G2532 bitter G4089 from G1537 same...
‘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' n...
James 3:11. Now follow, after the apostle's method, two illustrations of this incongruity, taken from the natural world. DOTH A FOUNTAIN SEND FORTH AT THE SAME PLACE: literally, ‘at the same hole or f...
THE FOUNTAIN (η πηγη). Old word for spring (John 4:14).OPENING (οπης). Old word for fissure in the earth, in N.T. only here and Hebrews 11:38 (caves).SEND FORTH (βρυε). Present active indicative...
CONTENTS: Control of the tongue. CHARACTERS: God, James. CONCLUSION: The Christian who is not affected by the sins of the tongue but takes care to avoid them, has an undoubted sign of true grace. 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 teac...
NO SPRING OF WATER. "No such stupidity is found in the natural world!...
JAMES—NOTE ON JAMES 3:1 The Sin of Dissension in the Community. This section is the longest in the letter. It discusses the problems people cause with their speech (James 3:1;...
_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 the same...
EXPOSITION JAMES 3:1 WARNING AGAINST OVER-READINESS TO TEACH, LEADING TO A DISCOURSE ON THE IMPORTANCE OF GOVERNMENT OF
Let's turn to James chapter three. James first of all warns against a desire to teach the Word of God that would stem or emanate just from your own desire to be in front of people or whatever. My bre...
James 3:11...
Doth a fountain, etc. The interrogative particle, mhti, which begins the sentence, expects a negative answer. Fountain has the article, "the fountain," generic. See Introduction, on James' local allus...