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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878. Excerpt: ... 1--12. Sins of Speech, and their condemnation. 3 My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we? shall receive the greater condemnation. For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same w.a 3 perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey 4 us; and we turn about their whole body. Behold also the Ch. III. i--12. Sins Of Speech, And Their Condemnation. 1. be not many masters Better, "do not become, or do not get into trie way of being many teachers." The English word "master," though perhaps conveying the idea of a "schoolmaster" in the sixteenth century, and therefore used in all the versions from Wycliffe and Tyndale onward, is now far too general in its meaning. What St James warns his "brethren" against is each man's setting himself up to be a teacher, and in this he echoes our Lord's command, (Matti xxiii. 8--10). In the Christian Church, as in the Jewish, there was the peril of a self-appointed Rabbi-ship. The sages of Israel had given the same caution, as in the maxim, Love the work, but strive not after the honour, of a Teacher, (Pirhe Aboth, i. 10). knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation" The change from the second person to the first is characteristic of the writer's profound humility. He will not give others a warning without at the same time applying it to himself. The Greek word for "condemnation", though literally meaning "judgment" only, is yet almost always used in the New Testament for an adverse judgment, (e. g. Matt. xxiii. 14; Rom. ii. 2, xiii. 2; 1 Cor. xi. 29, 34). The very form of St James's phrase is as an echo of our Lord's words in the first of the passages referred to. 2.-we offend all The word is the same as that in ch....
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