James 3:7
For every 4kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of 5mankind:
For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
πᾶσα γὰρ φύσις θηρίων τε καὶ πετεινῶν, ἑρπετῶν τε καὶ ἐναλίων, δαμάζεται καὶ δεδάμασται τῇ φύσει τῇ ἀνθρωπίνῃ·
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4:
Gr. nature.
5:
Gr. the nature of man.
some of every kind.
wild beasts, such as are most fierce and untractable.
though so movable and wandering, the very vagabonds of nature.
which are such enemies to mankind.
the inhabitants, as it were, of another world, really of another element.
either made gentle, or at least, brought into subjection to man by one means or other. He useth both tenses, the present and the past perfect, to note that such things not only have been, but still are; and that not as the effects of some miraculous providence, as in the case of Daniel, Dan 6:1-28, and Paul, Act 28:1-31, but as that which is usually experienced, and in man’s power still to do.