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Jam 3:5. Μεγαλαυχεῖ) boasts itself greatly: makes great pretensions, both respecting the past, and with a view to the future. There is often great importance in those things which the careless think small. The idea of greatness is also conveyed by the words, world, the course of nature, and hell, Jam 3:6.-ἰδοὺ, behold) The word behold, used for the third time, is prefixed to the third comparison.-ὀλίγον) So just before, μικρόν, a little. The Alex. MS. reads ἡλίκον,[34] with which the Latin version, and not that alone, plainly agrees: and yet I have with good reason removed this various reading from my margin: (1st) because it is plainly an alliteration with ἡλίκην which follows: (2d) because even Latin writers retain the word modicum. This is sufficient for maintaining the received reading.
[34] Ἡλίκον is the reading of BC corrected and Vulg. So Lachm. and Tisch. Ὀλιγον is the reading of Rec. Text, with A corrected and later authorities.