Defiled by the Tongue

Defiled by the Tongue. See: Defiled

(Jas 3:6). As above, the tongue speaks the words of the prophets, making God’s prophecies accessible audibly to the world. It is by this primary means, however, that the body of the prophetic scriptures is defiled in one’s spirit and made of no effect.[1]

[1] See Matthew 15: “But ye say, whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me.” Christ gives an example of this principle by a lower symbol, namely, that of the failure of the law by tradition, being a symbol of the intended failure of the PW by replacing it with the law. This is clear by context, the passage bracketed by mass Messianic healing miracles (14:36) and Christ’s condemnation of the Pharisees by quoting prophecy from Isaiah 29:13, where Isaiah immediately foretells God’s promise of Messiah.