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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, on Jas 4:14
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown · 1871
Jas 4:14 · Douay-Rheims
“Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow.”
On this verse:
“what--literally, "of what nature" is your life? that is, how evanescent it is. It is even--Some oldest authorities read, "For ye are." BENGEL, with other old authorities, reads, "For it shall be," the future referring to the "morrow" (Jam 4:13-15). The former expresses, "Ye yourselves are transitory"; so everything of yours, even your life, must partake of the same transitoriness. Received text has no old authority. and then vanisheth away--"afterwards vanishing as it came"; literally, "afterwards (as it appeared), so vanishing" [ALFORD].”
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