Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Are ye not divided in your own mind? (ou diekriqhte en eautois). First aorist (gnomic) passive indicative of diakrinw, to separate, conclusion of the third-class condition (future) in a rhetorical question in the gnomic aorist (as if past) with ou expecting an affirmative answer. For this idiom (gnomic aorist) in a conclusion of the third-class condition see I Corinthians 7:28. "Were ye not divided in (among) yourselves?" Cf. James 1:6; Matthew 21:21.
Judges with evil thoughts (kritai dialogismwn ponhrwn). Descriptive genitive as in James 1:25. Dialogismov is an old word for reasoning (Romans 1:21). Reasoning is not necessarily evil, but see Matthew 15:19 (ponhroi) and Mark 7:21 (kakoi) for evil reasonings, and I Timothy 2:8 without an adjective. See James 1:8; James 4:8 for diyuxov. They are guilty of partiality (a divided mind) as between the two strangers.
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