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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on James 3:10

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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The tongue, says ÆSOP, is at once the best and the worst of things. So in a fable, a man with the same breath blows hot and cold. "Life and death are in the power of the tongue" (compare Psa 62:4). brethren--an appeal to their consciences by their brotherhood in Christ. ought not so to be--a mild appeal, leaving it to themselves to understand that such conduct deserves the most severe reprobation.
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