Matthew Poole and continuators on James 3:7

7 For every kind of beasts , and of birds , and of serpents , and things in the sea , is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind.

Some of every kind.

Wild Beasts, such as are most fierce and untractable.

Tho so moveable and wandring, 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 Preterperfect, 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, ch. 6, and Paul, Acts· 28. but as that which is usually experienced, and in Man's Power still to do.

Marginal references: Gr. Nature.; Gr. Nature of [illegible: 1 word].