Whence (ποθεν). This old interrogative adverb (here twice) asks for the origin of wars and fights. James is full of interrogatives…

ANALYSIS OF THE CHAPTER.

In the previous chapter (James 3:13–18) the apostle had contrasted the wisdom which is from above with …

From where do wars come . . .?—More correctly: From where are wars, and from where are fightings among you? The perfect p…

From whence come wars and fightings among you?

Whether between nations, or parties or individuals—if there are wars and fightings, f…

Instead of the climate of peace necessary for the production of righteousness (3:18), James’s readers were living in an atmosphere of constant “fig…

From whence come wars. As he had spoken of peace, and had reminded them that vices must be exterminated in such a way as to preserve peace…

From where come wars and fightings among you ?
&c.] Which are to be understood, not of public and national wars, suc…

Since all wars and fighting come from the corruptions of our own hearts, it is right to mortify those lusts that war in our members. Worldly and fl…