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JAMES 2:11
Victor M. Eskew
For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
1. Commit adultery
A. Strong (3431): to commit adultery
B. Thayer: to commit adultery…to commit adultery with, have unlawful intercourse with another’s wife
C. Vine: denotes one who has unlawful intercourse with the spouse of another
2. Kill
A. Strong (5407): to be a murderer
B. Thayer: to kill, slay, murder, to commit murder
C. Vine: to murder, is always rendered by the verb to kill (except in Matt. 19:18, A.V., “do…murder,” and in Matt. 23:35, A.V. and R.V., “ye slew”)
3. Transgressor
A. Strong (3848): a violator
B. Thayer: a transgressor, a lawbreaker
C. Vine: lit. and primarily, one who stand beside, then, one who oversteps the prescribed limit, a transgressor
4. Law
A. Strong (3551): law…regulation…principle
B. Thayer: anything established…a law, command…a law producing a state approved of God…the Christian religion: the law demanding faith, the moral instruction given by Christ
C. Vine: law…law as decreed by a state and set up as the standard of administrative justice