| Joseph John Gurney - 1825 - 360 σελίδες
...adverted to tj>ei .subject in forcible and explicit terms : " But above QUfhings, my brethren, swear not ; neither by heaven ; neither by the earth ; 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 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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... | |
| Thomas Secker - 1825 - 568 σελίδες
...SERMON XXIX. JAMES V. 12. But above all things, my brethren, swear not ; neither by heaven, ncitlier by the earth, neither by any other oath : but let your yea, be yea, and your nay, nay ; lest yefall into condemnation. THIS precept of St. James is plainly taken frdm that part of our Saviour's... | |
| Richard Baxter - 1825 - 660 σελίδες
...evil c." " Above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by the heavens, neither by the earth, nor any other oath; but let your yea, be yea, and your nay, nay ; lest ye fall into condemnation d ;" (or hypocrisy, as Dr. Hammond thinks it should be read.) " Every one that sweareth shall be cut... | |
| Robert Barclay - 1826 - 616 σελίδες
...also the words of the apostle James, v. 12. But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither bv heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other...and your nay, nay, lest ye fall into condemnation. I say, considering these clear words, it is admirable how any one that professeth the name of Christ... | |
| Witness Lee - 1980 - 524 σελίδες
...not swear at all." This seed is developed in James 5:12: "But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither...and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation." The word of the apostle James is nearly the same as that of the Lord Jesus. It may be that James still... | |
| John R. Rice - 2000 - 568 σελίδες
...heaven; for it is God's throne," and James 5:12 also commands, "Above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, 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 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...prophets, vv. 10,11. XVI. PROHIBITION AGAINST OATHS (5:12) 12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, 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,... | |
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