04-22-2009, 10:01 AM
You ask in your Aramaic English interlinear, 'who knows what scripture James was quoting here?'
As I understand James phrase in 4:5, it is a non-existing quote, it was a rhetorical question. "Does the Scripture say that the Spirit dwells in us, with jealousy and lusts?"
The obvious answer is, "no."
Many bible critics, quote this verse, as if James was making up something, but James did not, he made an understandable point using a rhetoric question.
(just my two cents, I'm not a scholar...)
As I understand James phrase in 4:5, it is a non-existing quote, it was a rhetorical question. "Does the Scripture say that the Spirit dwells in us, with jealousy and lusts?"
The obvious answer is, "no."
Many bible critics, quote this verse, as if James was making up something, but James did not, he made an understandable point using a rhetoric question.
(just my two cents, I'm not a scholar...)