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Jam 3:8. Οὐδεὶς, ἀνθρώπων, no one of men) The antithesis is, of man, Jam 3:7.-οὐδεὶς, no other; scarcely each individual himself.-ἀκατάσχετον κακὸν) an unruly evil. Phocylides, λαός τοι καὶ ὕδωρ καὶ πῦρ, ἀκατάσχετα πάντα. So πῦρ, Jam 3:6.-μεστὴ, full) The nominative, after the parenthesis, compared with Jam 3:6. Then especially the evil is not to be restrained, when[38] it swells with deadly poison.
[38] So Beng. seems to take μεστὴ, when it is full, etc.-E.