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Tiago 3:11

Listen to Tiago 3:11
11 Porventura a fonte deita da mesma abertura água doce e água amargosa?

Tiago 3:11 Meaning and Commentary

James 3:11

Doth a fountain send forth at the same place
"Or hole"; for at divers places, and at different times, as Pliny F13 observes, it may send forth

sweet [water] and bitter:
and it is reported F14, 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.


FOOTNOTES:

F13 Nat. Hist. l. 2. c. 103.
F14 Isodor. Hispal. Originum, l. 13. c. 13. p. 115.
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Tiago 3:11 In-Context

9 Com ela bendizemos ao Senhor e Pai, e com ela amaldiçoamos os homens, feitos � semelhança de Deus.
10 Da mesma boca procede bênção e maldição. Não convém, meus irmãos, que se faça assim.
11 Porventura a fonte deita da mesma abertura água doce e água amargosa?
12 Meus irmãos, pode acaso uma figueira produzir azeitonas, ou uma videira figos? Nem tampouco pode uma fonte de água salgada dar água doce.
13 Quem dentre vós é sábio e entendido? Mostre pelo seu bom procedimento as suas obras em mansidão de sabedoria.

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