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Jam_3:16. Reason of the judgment expressed in Jam_3:15. With the introductory words: ὅπου γὰρ ζῆλος καὶ ἐριθεία , James points back to Jam_3:14; with the following words: ἐκεῖ κ . τ . λ ., he names the fruit of ζῆλος and ἐριθεία ; these are ἀκαταστασία and πᾶν φαῦλον πρᾶγμα ; ἀκαταστασία ] is uproar, disorder; comp. Pro_26:28; στόμα ἄστεγον ποιεῖ ἀκαταστασίας . An uproarious disorderly nature proceeds not from God: οὐ γάρ ἐστιν ἀκαταστασίας ὁ Θεὸς , ἀλλ ̓ εἰρήνης , 1Co_14:33.
To this special idea, which is particularly brought forward on account of the condition of those to whom James writes, the general idea: every evil deed, is added, in order to lay stress on the fact that zeal and partisanship bring along with them the corruption of the whole moral life. Of a wisdom which effects this, it must naturally hold good what is said of it in Jam_3:15.
The supposition of Kern (Tüb. Zeitschr. 1835, II. 59), to which de Wette assents, that the here presupposed controversies between Jewish and Gentile Christians are alluded to, is properly rejected by Brückner.