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Are ye not divided in your own mind? (ou diekrithēte en heautois̱). First aorist (gnomic) passive indicative of diakrinō, to separate, conclusion of the third-class condition (future) in a rhetorical question in the gnomic aorist (as if past) with ou expecting an affirmative answer. For this idiom (gnomic aorist) in a conclusion of the third-class condition see 1Co 7:28. “Were ye not divided in (among) yourselves?” Cf. Jam 1:6; Mat 21:21.
Judges with evil thoughts (kritai dialogismōn ponērōn). Descriptive genitive as in Jam 1:25. Dialogismos is an old word for reasoning (Rom 1:21). Reasoning is not necessarily evil, but see Mat 15:19 (ponēroi) and Mar 7:21 (kakoi) for evil reasonings, and 1Ti 2:8 without an adjective. See Jam 1:8; Jam 4:8 for dipsuchos. They are guilty of partiality (a divided mind) as between the two strangers.