Had the scope of Paul's argument been to show that faith in Christ releases men from the obligation of obeying the divine law, and thus makes good works unnecessary; or had James been laboring to prove that good works are the meritorious ground of men's forgiveness, then the doctrines of the two apostles would have been Irreconcilably at variance.
"Companion to the Bible"
E. P. Barrows
If this is correct there can be no doubt that such a confusion of the two ideas that in their later forms not only stand widely apart, but are always Irreconcilably hostile, denotes the very lowest stage of aboriginal superstition wherever it prevails, for it has been held that, although the line between abject fetishism and witchcraft may be difficult to trace in the elementary stages, yet from the beginning a true distinction can invariably be recognised.
"West African studies"
Mary Henrietta Kingsley