NOTES
- This article derives from chapter six of an MA thesis by S.P. Nolte, 'n Semiotiese analise van Jakobus 3:1–12, completed under the supervision of J.L.P. Wolmarans, at the Rand Afrikaans University, 1991.
- P.H. Davids, The Epistle of James. A commentary on the Greek text, Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1982, pp. 141–144.
- M. Dibelius and H. Greeven, James. A commentary on the Epistle of James, Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1975, p. 181.
- F. Grünzweig, Der Brief des Jakobus, Wuppertal: R. Brockhaus, 1973, p. 103.
- S.S. Laws, A commentary on the Epistle of James, London: Adam & Charles Black. 1980, pp. 140, 148–149.
- F. Mussner, Der Jakobusbrief, Freiburg, Basel, Wien: Herder. 1981, pp. 158, 162–164.
- E. Nestle and K. Aland, Novum Testamentum Graece, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelstiftung. 1981. p. 589.
- R.V.G. Tasker, The general Epistle of James, London: Tyndale, 1967, p. 75.
- J. Michl, Die Katholischen Briefe, Regensburg: Friedrich Pustet, 1968, p. 46.
- F. Schnider, Der Jakobusbrief, Regensburg: Friedrich Pustet, 1953, p. 85.
- K. Aland, M. Black, C.M. Martini, B M. Metzger and A. Wikgren, The Greek New Testament, UBS Text, New York: United Bible Societies, 1983, pp. 784–785.
- W.F. Arndt and F.W. Gingrich, A Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament anti other early Christian literature, Chicago, Illinois. Cambridge: University of Chicago Press; Cambridge University Press. 1957, p. 391.
- J.B. Adamson, The Epistle of James, Grand Rapids: Michigan, 1976, pp. 143, 158.
- F. Blass and A. Debrunner (rev. by R.W. Funk), A Greek grammar of the New Testament and other early Christian literature, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1961, par. 273.
- Die Nuwe Afrikaanse Bybelvertaling (NAB), Kaapstad: Bybelgenootskap van Suid-Afrika, 1983.
- Adamson, op. cit. p. 143; Davids, op. cit. p. 141; Dibelius, op. cit. pp. 193–195; S.J. Kistemaker, Exposition of the Epistle of James, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1986, p. 110; Laws, op. cit. p. 148; R.A. Martin, ‘James’. In: R.A. Martin and J.H. Elliott, James, 1–2 Peter/Jude, Minneapolis, Minnesota: Augsburg Publishing House, 1982, p. 37; Michl, op. cit. p. 47; Mussner, op. cit. p. 162; E.M. Sidebottom,James, Jude, 2 Peter, Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1967, p. 47; H. Windisch, Die Katholischen Briefe, Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1951, p. 23.
- H. Balz and W. Schrage, Die ‘Katholischen’ Briefe, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1973, p. 40.
- Michl, op. cit. p. 48.
- Davids, op. cit. p. 143.
- Laws, op. cit. p. 150.
- J.L.P. Wolmarans, ‘Making sense out of suffering. James 1:2–4’, Hervormde Teologiese Studies 47/4, 1991, p. 1116.
- Balz and Schrage, op. cit. p. 40.
- For a more detailed discussion of the Orphic background of this phrase and James' reinterpretation of it, cf. Dibelius, op. cit. pp. 196–198; Davids, op. cit. p. 143; Laws, op. cit. pp. 150–151; Michl, op. cit. p. 48; Mussner, op. cit. p. 164; Schnider, op. cit. p. 85.
- Laws, op. cit. p. 150.
- Davids, op. cit. p. 143; Dibelius, op. cit. p. 198; Mussner, op. cit. p. 165.