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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - James 1:8 - 1:8
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double-minded - literally, “double-souled,” the one soul directed towards God, the other to something else. The Greek favors Alford’s translation, “He (the waverer, Jam 1:6) is a man double-minded, unstable,” etc.; or better, Beza’s. The words in this Jam 1:8 are in apposition with “that man,” Jam 1:7; thus the “us,” which is not in the original, will not need to be supplied, “A man double-minded, unstable in all his ways!” The word for “double-minded” is found here and in Jam 4:8, for the first time in Greek literature. It is not a hypocrite that is meant, but a fickle, “wavering” man, as the context shows. It is opposed to the single eye (Mat 6:22).