Affirm Although Ambitious Assertions Asseverate Certainly Confident Confidently Desiring Either Law Law-teachers Matters Saying Statements Strenuously Strongly Talking Teachers Though Understand Understanding Wanting Whereof Willing
1:7 {6} Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.
(6) There are none more unlearned, and more impudent in usurping the name of holiness, than foolish babblers, who reason fallaciously.
1:7 Desiring to be teachers of the law. To be teachers of law; there is no article. These aspire to a work for which they are totally unfitted. Who has not met the class of men described?
1:7 Understanding neither the very things they speak, nor the subject they speak of.
1:5-11 Whatever tends to weaken love to God, or love to the brethren, tends to defeat the end of the commandment. The design of the gospel is answered, when sinners, through repentance towards God and faith in Jesus Christ, are brought to exercise Christian love. And as believers were righteous persons in God's appointed way, the law was not against them. But unless we are made righteous by faith in Christ, really repenting and forsaking sin, we are yet under the curse of the law, even according to the gospel of the blessed God, and are unfit to share the holy happiness of heaven.
Affirm Although Ambitious Assertions Confident Desiring Either Law Statements Strenuously Strongly Talking Teachers Understand Understanding Want Wanting Whereof Willing Words
Affirm Although Ambitious Assertions Confident Desiring Either Law Statements Strenuously Strongly Talking Teachers Understand Understanding Want Wanting Whereof Willing Words
