James 2:26
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
For as the body without the spirit is dead,.... This simile is made use of to illustrate what the apostle had asserted in James 2:17 that as a body, when the spirit or soul is departed from it, or the breath is gone out of it, is dead, and without motion, and useless; which the Jews {d} express in like manner,
xwr alb Pwg rgp, "the body without the spirit", or "breath, is a carcass".
so faith without works is dead also: a vain thing, useless and unprofitable, can neither justify, nor save, nor prove that a man is justified, or will be saved.
{d} Ohel. Moed, fol. 15. 1.
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