And not a doer (κα ου ποιητης). Condition of first class, assumed as true, and ου (rather than μη) contrasts ποιητης with ακροατης…

For if any be, etc. The basis of the comparison in these verses is obvious. The apostle refers to what all people experience: the fact tha…

He is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass.—The Apostle points grimly to an example of this self-decepti…

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your sou…

The author proceeds to explain why people should do more than merely listen to the truth, using the illustration of a man who “looks at his face in…

He is like to a man. Heavenly doctrine is indeed a mirror in which God presents himself to our view; but so that we may be transformed int…

But if any man be a hearer of the word, and not a doer ,
&c.] The Arabic version here again reads, "a hearer of the law", and …

If we heard a sermon every day of the week, and an angel from heaven were the preacher, yet, if we relied on hearing only, it would never bring us …