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John Trapp Complete Commentary - James 1:22 - 1:22
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22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
Ver. 22. And not hearers only] The Panotii in Scythia are said to have such large ears, as that therewith they cover their whole bodies. (Isidore.) Such are our hearers only.
Deceiving your own souls] Either as by false reckoning or false reasoning; Gr.
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, putting paralogisms and fallacies upon yourselves. For hypocrites may easily deceive not others only, but themselves too; as a drunken stage player, that in his drunkenness acting a king’s part, thinks himself a king indeed.