Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Holy Scriptures

G. P. "we shall receive." s P. " condemnation." The text simply expresses judgment. The apostle means that we shall have to give a stricter account ; but this does not necessarily imply condemnation. Matt, xxiii. 8. "A most severe judgment shall be for those who bear rule." Wisdom vi. 6.

G. P. "Behold." Some manuscripts have: it S'l.

It is the instrument and cause of numberless sins. G. P. "so is the tongue among our members." " So," is wanting in the Alexandrian and Vatican manu- scripts, and in the chief versions, and it is therefore now rejected by critics.

Skilled in Divine things — endowed with religious knowledge.

" Search all heathen antiquity," Macknight gives the challenge, " and see whether it can produce any sentiments more noble, or more simply and beauti- fully expressed, than those contemplated in this chapter, and indeed throughout the whol^ of this epistle."

Lit. trip. "On account of these and such like sins (the having of lawsuits), and others of a lesser kind, which consist in offences in speech or thought, since the apostle James acknowledges that in many things we all offend, we must daily pray to the Lord, and say: Forgive us our trespasses." St. Augustin, De Fide, Spe, et Charitate, c. Ixxviii.