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Homoiopathes describes people as sharing the same human kind or condition as those being addressed.
The two occurrences describe a shared human condition: Acts 14:15 applies it to men addressing a crowd, and James 5:17 applies it to Elijah in relation to other human beings.
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Sharing the same human condition · dominant
In Acts 14:15, the nominative plural masculine form describes the speakers in the clause that the APB renders “men of like nature.” In James 5:17, the nominative singular masculine form describes Elijah; the APB renders him as “a human being like” others before recounting his prayer.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term with “like nature” in Acts 14:15 and with “a human being like” in James 5:17. These phrases show the clauses’ presentation rather than a precise lexical equivalence.