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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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 deal with the power of speech. He likened the tongue t...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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Warning against the abuse of the tongue:...
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DOTH A FOUNTAIN SEND FORTH AT THE SAME PLACE SWEET WATER AND BITTER?...
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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...
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Explain the illustration of the water from a spring....
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PLACE:
Or, hole...
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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...
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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...
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Ordinarily and naturally; if any such be, it is looked upon as uncouth
and prodigious....
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James 3:11 Does G3385 spring G4077 forth G1032 (G5719) fresh G1099 and
G2532 bitter G4089 from G1537 same...
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‘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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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NO SPRING OF WATER. "No such stupidity is found in the natural world!...
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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;...
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_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...
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EXPOSITION
JAMES 3:1
WARNING AGAINST OVER-READINESS TO TEACH, LEADING TO A DISCOURSE ON
THE IMPORTANCE OF GOVERNMENT OF
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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...
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James 3:11...
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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...