James 3:7. For every kind: literally, every nature or disposition.

of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea: the inferior creation arranged under its usual fourfold classification beasts of the earth, fowls of heaven, creeping things, and fish of the sea.

is tamed better, ‘is subdued,' as we can hardly say that all the inferior animals are tamed, many of them being incapable of being so; but they may all be subdued.

and hath been tamed, subdued.

of mankind: literally, ‘by the nature of men,' answering to the nature of the inferior animals mentioned above; hence ‘by human nature.'

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