 | George Townsend - 1825 - 810 pages
...Job, and have seen the end of the Lord ; that the Lord Is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. 12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither...and your nay, nay ; lest ye fall into condemnation. § 13. JAMES v. 13, to the end. Under all the Circumstances of Life he recommends a correspondentfeeling... | |
 | Joseph John Gurney - 1825 - 362 pages
...33 — 37. The apostle James has also adverted to the subject in forcible and explicit terms : " But above all things, my brethren, swear not ; neither...and your nay, nay, lest ye fall into condemnation;" ch. v, 12. It might have been supposed that such plain injunctions would have convinced the generality... | |
 | Elisha Bates - 1825 - 340 pages
...Matt. 5.33, 34,35,36,37. The apostle James, adverts to the same thing, in the impressive language: "But above all things my brethren, swear not, neither by...and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation." Jam. 5. 12. It is strange indeed that precepts so positive and clear, should be construed away to mean... | |
 | Joseph John Gurney - 1825 - 360 pages
...apostle James has also adverted to tj>ei .subject in forcible and explicit terms : " But above QUfhings, my brethren, swear not ; neither by heaven ; neither...let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay; lest ye fall h}to condemnation;" ch. v, 12. It might have been supposed that such plain injunctions would have convinced... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1825 - 572 pages
...juij liç ùvôxftViv wiä-лт*. * But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heavenï neither by the earth, neither by any other oath :...and your nay, nay ; lest ye fall into condemnation. •Again, ye have heard that it hath, been said by them of old time, Thou shall not forswear thyself,... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1825 - 630 pages
...Cod' l throne: » See parallels on clause 1. тег. 42. ь But above all things, my brethren, «wear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither...any other oath : but let your yea be yea, and your nav, nay ; lest ye fall into condemnation, James т. 18. T He that shall swear by heaven, sweareth... | |
 | John R. Rice - 2000 - 568 pages
...unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne," and James 5:12 also commands, "Above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither...and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation." In government, one is required to swear, or to solemnly promise, but he may use "I solemnly affirm"... | |
 | David Harris Sacks - 2023 - 504 pages
..."Swear not at all"? 88 And in the Epistle of St. James were not Christians told, "above all things . .. swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be your yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into a condemnation." 89 In conventional Protestant commentaries,... | |
 | Paul V. Harrison, Robert E. Picirilli - 1992 - 384 pages
...vv. 7-9, and (b) exemplified in the prophets, vv. 10,11. XVI. PROHIBITION AGAINST OATHS (5:12) 12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither...and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation. Verse 12 appears to exist as a separate unit of thought. As Robertson (Word Pictures VI:63) comments,... | |
 | David Lawton - 1993 - 260 pages
...thus evades, sometimes by glossing it out of existence, the apparent prohibition of James 5: 12: 'But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither...and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.' As John Downame hastens to explain in 'A Treatise on Swearing' (1609) Christ 'onely forbiddeth rash,... | |
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But above all things, my brethren, swear not; neither by heaven, neither by the earth, | neither by any other oath : but let your yea, be yea; and your nay, nay ; lest ye fall into condemnation. 
