For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that.
Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.”
instead of your saying, `If the Lord may will, we shall live, and do this or that;'
instead of your saying, If the Lord should [so] will and we should live, we will also do this or that.
James — Apostolic writings (New Testament).
1 From whence come wars. As he had spoken of peace, and had reminded them that vices are to be exterminated in such a way as to preserve peace, he now comes to their contentions, by which they created confusion among themselves; and he shews that these arose from their…