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Jam_5:19-20. To the exhortation to mutual confession and intercession is annexed “the reference to an important matter—the reclaiming of an erring soul” (Wiesinger). Jam_5:19 forms the supposition; this is expressed in two co-ordinate sentences, of which the first is subordinate in thought to the second: “if any convert one who has erred from the truth.”
πλανηθῇ ] the passive aorist here, as frequently in the signification of the middle.
ἀπὸ τῆς ἀληθείας ] With this is meant not a single practical aberration, but an alienation from the Christian principle of life, an inward apostasy from the λόγος ἀληθείας by which the Christian is begotten (Jam_1:18), disclosing itself in a sinful course of life (so also Wiesinger, Brückner, Lange[248]).
ΚΑῚ ἘΠΙΣΤΡΈΨῌ ] sc. ἐπὶ τὴν ἀλήθειαν ; comp. Luk_1:16-17.
[248] Arbitrarily, Lange defines the aberration more precisely “as an aberration into Judaistic and chiliastic doings and fanatical and seditious lusts.”