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Tiago 3:12

Listen to Tiago 3:12
12 Meus irmãos, pode acaso uma figueira produzir azeitonas, ou uma videira figos? Nem tampouco pode uma fonte de água salgada dar água doce.

Tiago 3:12 Meaning and Commentary

James 3:12

Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries?
&c.] Every tree bears fruit, according to its kind; a fig tree produces figs, and an olive tree olive berries; a fig tree does not produce olive berries, or an olive tree figs; and neither of them both:

either a vine, figs?
or fig trees, grapes; or either of them, figs and grapes:

so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
The Alexandrian copy reads, "neither can the salt water yield sweet water"; that is, the sea cannot yield sweet or fresh water: the Syriac version renders it, "neither can salt water be made sweet": but naturalists say, it may be made sweet, by being strained through sand: the design of these similes is to observe how absurd a thing it is that a man should both bless and curse with his tongue.

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Tiago 3:12 In-Context

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.
14 Mas, se tendes amargo ciúme e sentimento faccioso em vosso coração, não vos glorieis, nem mintais contra a verdade.

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