Manly Luscombe Commentary on NT
James 3:12
Explain the example of a fig tree and grapevine. What is the conclusion of these examples?
Explain the example of a fig tree and grapevine. What is the conclusion of these examples?
JAMES 3:12 ou;te a`luko,n {B} Many witnesses, including a C2 K L P 049 056 0142 81 104 1739 itff vg syrp, h with * copbo _al,_ add ou[twj before the negative. Since, however, it was natural for copyi...
Verse 12. _SO_ CAN _NO FOUNTAIN BOTH YIELD SALT WATER AND FRESH._] For the reading of the common text, which is οὑτως ουδεμια πηγη ἁλυκον και γλυκυ ποιησαι ὑδωρ, _so no fountain can produce salt_...
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 to o...
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...
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...
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...
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"....
_Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries?_ The comparison here also has an eminently local character. The court-yard of well-nigh every house had its vine and fig-tree (2 Kings 18:31). The M...
ΟΥ̓́ΤΕ ἉΛΥΚῸΝ ΓΛΥΚῪ ΠΟΙΗ͂ΣΑΙ ὝΔΩΡ with א (οὐδεὲ) ABD, Old Latin and Vulgate. The T.R. has the support of KLP and later MS. authority and some versions in reading οὐδεμία πηγὴ ἁλυκὸν καὶ γλυκὺ ποιῆσαι...
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...
_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...
ΔΎΝΑΤΑΙ _praes. ind. pass. (dep.) от_ ΔΎΝΑΜΑΙ (G1410) быть способным, ΣΥΚΉ (G4808) смоковница, фиговое дерево, ΈΛΑΊΑ (G1636) олива, ΠΟΙΉΣΑΙ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΠΟΙΈΩ (G4160) производить, ΆΜΠΕΛΟΣ ...
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, which are o...
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...
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...
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 ... - an imposs...
VERSE 12. CAN A FIG-TREE, MY BRETHREN, BEAR OLIVE BERRIES? Did the fig-tree bear olives, or the vine figs, it would be contrary to nature; it would be unnatural. Such an inconsistency is never beheld...
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,...
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 of...
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...
With the whole verse _cf._ Matthew 7:16-17; for the use of ποιεῖν see Matthew 3:10, πᾶν δένδρον μὴ ποιοῦν καρπόν …; ἁλυκόν does not occur elsewhere in the N.T. or Septuagint, though in Numbers 3:12;...
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...
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...
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 berri...
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 repor...
_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:...
CAN THE FIG-TREE, MY BRETHREN, BEAR OLIVE-BERRIES? EITHER A VINE, FIGS? SO CAN NO FOUNTAIN BOTH YIELD SALT WATER AND FRESH. It may seem, perhaps, that the orator is here carried away by his subject; b...
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...
"Can. fig tree, my brethren, produce olives, or. vine produce figs? Neither can salt water produce fresh." Once again God selects illustrations that everyone can follow. "From the plant life James men...
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...
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 ingrafti...
James 3:12 Can G3361 G1410 (G5736) tree G4808 my G3450 brethren G80 bear G4160 (G5658) olives...
‘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 nature...
James 3:12. CAN THE FIG TREE, MY BRETHREN, BEAR OLIVE BERRIES? EITHER A VINE, FIGS? that is, no tree can bring forth fruits inconsistent with its nature. The illustration here is not, that we must not...
CAN? (μη δυναται;). Negative answer expected. See the same metaphor in Matthew 7:16.FIG-TREE (συκη). Old and common word (Matthew 21:19).FIGS (συκα). Ripe fruit of η συκη.OLIVES (ελαιας). Else...
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...
A FIG TREE. "A fig tree cannot produce such opposite fruits!" NOR CAN SALTY WATER. "It is just as unnatural for the same tongue to praise God and curse man made in the likeness of God!...
_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 moral ch...
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...
2 Kings 2:19; Exodus 15:23; Ezekiel 47:8; Isaiah 5:2; Jeremiah 2:21
So can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh. The best texts omit so can no fountain, and the and between salt and fresh. Thus the text reads, oute aJlukon gluku poihsai udwr. Render, as Rev., n...