Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
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Gill's Exposition
Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing,.... Which is not only a contradiction, but unnatural, as well as wicked and sinful:
my brethren, these things ought not so to be: in any, and…
Barnes' Notes
Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing - The meaning here may be, either that out of the mouth of man two such opposite things proceed, not referring to the same individual, but to…
Adam Clarke
Out of the same mouth - This saying is something like that, Pro 18:21 : Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and on this, for an illustration of St. James' words, hear Vayikra Rabba, sec.…
The foregoing chapter shows how unprofitable and dead faith is without works. It is plainly intimated by what this chapter first goes upon that such a faith is, however, apt to make men conceited and…
Cambridge Bible
these things ought not so to be The verb, strictly. speaking, denotes not so much a state, as the coming into a state: these things ought not to occur in this way.
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