Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
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Gill's Exposition
Wherefore, my beloved brethren,.... Since the Gospel, the word of truth, is the means and instrument which God makes use of in regeneration, and in forming people for himself:
let every man be swift…
Barnes' Notes
Wherefore, my beloved brethren - The connection is this: “since God is the only source of good; since he tempts no man; and since by his mere sovereign goodness, without any claim on our part, we have…
Adam Clarke
Swift to hear - Talk little and work much, is a rabbinical adage. - Pirkey Aboth, cap. i. 15.
The righteous speak little, and do much; the wicked speak much, and do nothing. - Bava Metzia, fol.…
In this part of the chapter we are required,
I. To restrain the workings of passion. This lesson we should learn under afflictions; and this we shall learn if we are indeed begotten again by the word…
Cambridge Bible
Man's wrath, and God's righteousness
19. Wherefore The better MSS. give "Ye know this … but let every man."
my beloved brethren The formula of address was common to all the four great writers of the…
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