had apparently become a proverbial expression for the present and the immediate future (Luke 12:28; 13:32–33), the scribes would believe it was more appropriate. But Lenski, who accepts “or” as the correct reading, suggests that James wrote “or” to indicate that the plan here stated is simply representative: “Sometimes the thing planned is to start today; sometimes it is to start tomorrow.”9 This is in keeping with the fact that James is concerned with their habitual practice. “We will go to this
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