Robertson Word Pictures - James 3:8 - 3:8

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Robertson Word Pictures - James 3:8 - 3:8


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No one (oudeis). Especially his own tongue and by himself, but one has the help of the Holy Spirit.

A restless evil (akatastaton kakon). Correct reading, not akatascheton, for which see note on Jam 1:8. The tongue is evil when set on fire by hell, not evil necessarily.

Full of deadly poison (mestē iou thanatēphorou). Feminine adjective agreeing with glōssa, not with kakon (neuter). Iou (poison here, as in Rom 3:13, but rust in Jam 5:3, only N.T. examples), old word. Genitive case after mestē (full of). Thanatēphorou, old compound adjective (from thanatos, death, pherō, to bear or bring), death-bringing. Here only in N.T. Like the restless death-bringing tongue of the asp before it strikes.