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Jam 2:20. Θέλεις, Art thou willing?) A question full of character (marked by courtesy); for vain men are in fact unwilling to know, and do not suffer themselves to observe.-κενὲ, vain man) uttering vain and empty words.-χωρὶς τῶν ἔργων νεκρά ἐστιν, without works is dead) This is both illustrated and proved in the following verse.-νεκρὰ,[27] dead) without life and strength to justify and save.
[27] νεκρὰ. Ἀργὴ is the reading of Cov. 4, Gen. and many Latin copies. Baumgarten asserts that this variation of reading ought not to have been numbered among those worthy of mention. I have mentioned it in the margin, which perhaps I should not have done, had not the Vulgate read otiosa. Yet I have added ε. Moreover in the smaller edition I have erased it.
Ἀργή is the reading of BC corrected, Vulg. (otiosa). But νεκρά, of A Memph. inferior MSS. of Vulg. Tisch. and Lachm. read ἀργή.-E.