καὶ τούῳ, “and to this agree,” A. and R.V., i.e., to the fact just stated (so Wendt, Weiss, Blass, Ramsay); if the pronoun referred to St. Peter, as some take it, we should have had οἱ προφῆται, not as in text, οἱ λ. τῶν π. The quotation Amos 9:11-12, is freely cited from the LXX, and indeed the chief point made by St. James depends upon that version. τῶν προφ., plural, as including those prophets whose words of prophecy had been of similar import.

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