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Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. 3. Your gold and silver is cankered ] Literally, rusted, the word being used generically of the tarnish that sooner … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of James 5:3”

Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. 2. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten ] The union of the two chief forms of Eastern wealth in this and the following verse, reminds us of the like combination in Mat 6:19, “where moth and rust doth corrupt.” Comp. St Paul’s “I … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of James 5:2”

Go to now, [ye] rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon [you.] Ch. Jas 5:1-6. Warnings for the Rich 1. Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl ] The words are nearly the same as those we have met with before in ch. Jas 4:9, but there is … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of James 5:1”

Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth [it] not, to him it is sin. 17. Therefore to him that knoweth to do good ] The law of conscience is here enforced in its utmost width. To leave undone what we know we ought to do, is sin, even though there be no … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of James 4:17”

But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. 16. But now ye rejoice in your boastings ] Better, ye exult in your vain glories. If the words were not too familiar, ye glory in your braggings would, perhaps, be a still nearer equivalent. The noun is found in 1Jn 2:16 (“the … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of James 4:16”

For that ye [ought] to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. 15. For that ye ought to say ] Literally, Instead of saying, but the English may be admitted as a fair paraphrase. If the Lord will, we shall live ] This is the reading of the better … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of James 4:15”

Whereas ye know not what [shall be] on the morrow. For what [is] your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. 14. Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow ] Literally, the thing, or the event of to-morrow, the phrase, being parallel to … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of James 4:14”

Go to now, ye that say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: 13 17. Man proposing, God disposing 13. Go to now, ye that say ] The warnings pass on to another form of the worldliness of the double-minded; … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of James 4:13”

There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another? 12. There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy ] Here again we have to trace a latent sequence of thought. The Giver of the Law is, St James implies, the only true … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of James 4:12”

Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of [his] brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. 11, 12. Rebuke of Evil-speaking 11. Speak not evil one of … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of James 4:11”