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Giacomo 3:12

Listen to Giacomo 3:12
12 Può, fratelli miei, un fico fare ulive, o una vite fichi? così niuna fonte può gettare acqua salsa, e dolce.

Giacomo 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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Giacomo 3:12 In-Context

10 D’una medesima bocca procede benedizione e maledizione. Non bisogna, fratelli miei, che queste cose si facciano in questa maniera.
11 La fonte sgorga ella da una medesima buca il dolce e l’amaro?
12 Può, fratelli miei, un fico fare ulive, o una vite fichi? così niuna fonte può gettare acqua salsa, e dolce.
13 CHI è savio e saputo, fra voi? mostri, per la buona condotta, le sue opere, con mansuetudine di sapienza.
14 Ma, se voi avete nel cuor vostro invidia amara e contenzione, non vi gloriate contro alla veritĂ , e non mentite contro ad essa.
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