 | Robert Barclay - 1825 - 584 pages
...for whatsoever is more than these, cometh of evil. As also the words of the apostle James, v. 12: But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Secker - 1825 - 568 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | 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. 
