James 3:11 BSB — MannaFest

James 3:11

Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring?

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter?

KJV

Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?

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Commentary

3 voices

Hilary of Arles

INTRODUCTORY TRACTATE ON THE LETTER OF JAMES (449)

The spring is the heart of man, the flowing stream of water is his speech, and the opening through which it pours is his mouth. The sweet water is sound doctrine, while the bitter water is just the opposite.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

Doth a fountain send forth at the same place,.... "Or hole"; for at divers places, and at different times, as Pliny (m) observes, it may send forth sweet water and bitter: and it is reported (n), there is a lake with the Trogloditae, a people in Ethiopia, which becomes thrice a day bitter, and then as often sweet; but then it does not yield sweet water and bitter at the same time: this simile is used to show how unnatural it is that blessing and cursing should proceed out of the same mouth. (m) Nat. Hist. l. 2. c.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Doth a fountain send forth at the same place - Margin, “hole.” The Greek word means “opening, fissure,” such as there is in the earth, or in rocks from which a fountain gushes. Sweet water and bitter - Fresh water and salt, Jas 3:12. Such things do not occur in the works of nature, and they should not be found in man.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
μήτι	mēti	surely not ever	G3385 →
ἡ	hē	the	G3588 →
πηγὴ	pēgē	spring	G4077 →
ἐκ	ek	out	G1537 →
τῆς	tēs	of the	G3588 →
αὐτῆς	autēs	same	G846 →
ὀπῆς	opēs	opening	G3692 →
βρύει	bruei	pours forth	G1032 →
τὸ	to	<the>	G3588 →
γλυκὺ	gluku	[both] fresh	G1099 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
τὸ	to	<the>	G3588 →
πικρόν;	pikron	bitter?	G4089 →