James 1:22

22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

Ver. 22. And not hearers only ] The Panotii in Scythia are said to have such large ears, as that therewith they cover their whole bodies. (Isidore.) Such are our hearers only.

Deceiving your own souls ] Either as by false reckoning or false reasoning; Gr. παραλογιζομενοι , putting paralogisms and fallacies upon yourselves. For hypocrites may easily deceive not others only, but themselves too; as a drunken stage player, that in his drunkenness acting a king’s part, thinks himself a king indeed.