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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - James 3:10 - 3:10
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The tongue, says Aesop, is at once the best and the worst of things. So in a fable, a man with the same breath blows hot and cold. “Life and death are in the power of the tongue” (compare Psa 62:4).
brethren - an appeal to their consciences by their brotherhood in Christ.
ought not so to be - a mild appeal, leaving it to themselves to understand that such conduct deserves the most severe reprobation.