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بِهِ نُبَارِكُ اللهَ الآبَ، وَبِهِ نَلْعَنُ النَّاسَ الَّذِينَ قَدْ تَكَوَّنُوا عَلَى شِبْهِ اللهِ.
التفاسير
مقتطفات جُمعت من تفاسير منشورة لترسيخ القراءة.
God--The oldest authorities read, "Lord." "Him who is Lord and Father." The uncommonness of the application of "Lord" to the Father, doubtless caused the change in modern texts to "God" (Jam 1:27). But as Messiah is called "Father," Isa 9:6, so God the Father is called by the Son's title, "Lord": showing the unity of the Godhead. "Father" implies His paternal love; "Lord," His dominion. men, which--not "men who"; for what is meant is not particular men, but men genetically [ALFORD]. are made after . . . similitude of God--Though in a great measure man has lost the likeness of God in which he was originally made, yet enough of it still remains to show what once it was, and what in regenerated and restored man it shall be. We ought to reverence this remnant and earnest of what man shall be in ourselves and in others. "Absalom has fallen from his father's favor, but the people still recognize him to be the king's son" [BENGEL]. Man resembles in humanity the Son of man, "the express image of His person" (Heb 1:3), compare Gen 1:26; Jo1 4:20. In the passage, Gen 1:26, "image" and "likeness" are distinct: "image," according to the Alexandrians, was something in which men were created, being common to all, and continuing to man after the fall, while the "likeness" was something toward which man was created, to strive after and attain it: the former marks man's physical and intellectual, the latter his moral pre-eminence.
افتح المصدر ↗The apostle here reproves ambition, and an arrogant magisterial tongue; and shows the duty and advantage of bridling it because of its power to do mischief. Those who profess religion ought especially to govern their tongues (Jam 3:1-12). True wisdom makes men meek, and avoiders of strife and envy: and hereby it may easily be distinguished from a wisdom that is earthly and hypocritical (Jam 3:13 to the end).
افتح المصدر ↗3:9 praises . . . curses: Praising our Lord and Father is the best activity of the tongue, whereas cursing those made in his image is one of the worst, because it is an implicit curse on God himself (Gen 1:26-27; 9:6).
افتح المصدر ↗الشواهد المتقابلة
مقاطع أخرى يربطها المجتمع بهذا المقطع أكثر من غيرها. انقر لتقرأها.
فَمُهُ مَمْلُوءٌ لَعْنَةً وَغِشًّا وَظُلْمًا. تَحْتَ لِسَانِهِ مَشَقَّةٌ وَإِثْمٌ.
فَقَالَ السَّيِّدُ: «لأَنَّ هذَا الشَّعْبَ قَدِ اقْتَرَبَ إِلَيَّ بِفَمِهِ وَأَكْرَمَنِي بِشَفَتَيْهِ، وَأَمَّا قَلْبُهُ فَأَبْعَدَهُ عَنِّي، وَصَارَتْ مَخَافَتُهُمْ مِنِّي وَصِيَّةَ النَّاسِ مُعَلَّمَةً.
إِنَّمَا يَتَآمَرُونَ لِيَدْفَعُوهُ عَنْ شَرَفِهِ. يَرْضَوْنَ بِالْكَذِبِ. بِأَفْوَاهِهِمْ يُبَارِكُونَ وَبِقُلُوبِهِمْ يَلْعَنُونَ. سِلاَهْ.
سَافِكُ دَمِ الإِنْسَانِ بِالإِنْسَانِ يُسْفَكُ دَمُهُ. لأَنَّ اللهَ عَلَى صُورَتِهِ عَمِلَ الإِنْسَانَ.
خَطِيَّةُ أَفْوَاهِهِمْ هِيَ كَلاَمُ شِفَاهِهِمْ. وَلْيُؤْخَذُوا بِكِبْرِيَائِهِمْ، وَمِنَ اللَّعْنَةِ وَمِنَ الْكَذِب ِالَّذِي يُحَدِّثُونَ بِهِ.
هذَا كِتَابُ مَوَالِيدِ آدَمَ، يَوْمَ خَلَقَ اللهُ الإِنْسَانَ. عَلَى شَبَهِ اللهِ عَمِلَهُ.
فَأَجَابَ أَبِيشَايُ ابْنُ صَرُويَةَ وَقَالَ: «أَلاَ يُقْتَلُ شِمْعِي لأَجْلِ هَذَا، لأَنَّهُ سَبَّ مَسِيحَ الرَّبِّ؟»
لِذلِكَ سُرَّ قَلْبِي وَتَهَلَّلَ لِسَانِي. حَتَّى جَسَدِي أَيْضًا سَيَسْكُنُ عَلَى رَجَاءٍ.
وَلِسَانِي يَلْهَجُ بِعَدْلِكَ. الْيَوْمَ كُلَّهُ بِحَمْدِكَ.
ثَابِتٌ قَلْبِي يَا اَللهُ. أُغَنِّي وَأُرَنِّمُ. كَذلِكَ مَجْدِي.