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James 5:3
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.
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.
Verse James 5:3. _YOUR GOLD AND SILVER IS CANKERED_] Instead of helping the poor, and thus honouring God with your substance, ye have, through the principle of covetousness, kept all to yourselves....
YOUR GOLD AND SILVER IS CANKERED - That is, that you have heaped together, by injustice and fraud, a large amount, and have kept it from those to whom it is due, James 5:4, until it has become corrode...
V. THE COMING OF THE LORD AND THE LIFE OF FAITH CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The oppression by the rich and their coming doom (James 5:1)_ 2. Be patient unto the coming of the Lord (James 5:7) 3. The prayers of...
From the merely careless rich James turns to the actively oppressive, the fellows of those whom he lashes in James 2:6 f. For him, of course, the prophetic Day of the Lord was more assured and more de...
Come now, you rich, weep and wail at the miseries which are coming upon you. Your wealth is rotten and your garments are food for moths. Your gold and silver are corroded clean through with rust; and...
THE WORTHLESSNESS OF RICHES (James 5:1-3)...
CANKERED. rusted. Greek. _katioo._ Only here. RUST. Greek. _i_. _s_. See James 3:8. A. for (App-104.) a. HAVE, &C. = treasured up. See Rom 2:5. 1 Corinthians 16:2. LAST DAYS. See...
_Your gold and silver is cankered_ Literally, RUSTED, the word being used generically of the tarnish that sooner or later comes over all metals that are exposed to the action of the air. _shall be a...
Ὁ ΧΡΥΣῸΣ ὙΜΩ͂Ν ΚΑῚ Ὁ ἌΡΓΥΡΟΣ ΚΑΤΊΩΤΑΙ. Arrian, _Epict._ IV. 6, ὡς ὁπλάρια ἐπικείμενα κατίωται. The precious metals, gold and silver, are not, strictly speaking, subject to rust, but to tarnish or oxid...
The thought of trade suggests the thought of wealth, as in Revelation 18:15 οἱ ἔμποροι τούτων πλουτήσαντες�ʼ αὐτῆς. The rich men who are here addressed are outside ‘the brotherhood.’ This appears clea...
_RETAIN THE RIGHT ATTITUDE -- JAMES 5:1-11_ Wealth is not wrong within itself. The trouble with riches is in reference to wealth held without regard for the kingdom of God. The worldly rich that are d...
ΧΡΥΣΌΣ (G5557) золото, ΆΡΓΥΡΟΣ (G696) серебро, ΚΑΤΊΩΤΑΙ _perf. ind. pass. от_ ΚΑΤΙΌΩ (G2728) ржаветь, становиться ржавым, портиться, поддаваться коррозии (BAGD; _см._ Strabo 16, 2, 42; Epictetus 4,...
YE HAVE HEAPED TREASURE TOGETHER, &C.— The literal and most exact translation of the words is, _Ye have heaped up treasure in the last days;_ which rendering leads us to the true interpretation of the...
CHAPTER IX _PRETENDED DEBATE WITH A RICH UNBELIEVER_ James 4:13 to James 5:6 _Introduction:_ The title of this chapter is itself interpretive, and might introduce some discussion. There is no doubt...
THE END OF THE UNGODLY RICH _Text 5:1-6_ James 5:1. Come now ye rich and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you. 2. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth eaten. 3. Your...
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. IS CANKERED - r...
VERSE 3 YOUR GOLD AND SILVER IS CANKERED. That is, the gold and silver they had treasured up had contracted rust, for they are in fact herein charged with having been engaged for a long period of time...
5 This passage has puzzled the commentators, and there are many and various explanations offered to solve what seems to be one of the most difficult passages in the Scriptures. A simple explanation, w...
REBUKE AND ENCOURAGEMENT 2. Are corrupted, etc.] prophetic tense, in which the future is spoken of as though it were already come to pass....
FOR THE LAST DAYS] RV '_in_ the last days.' The warning was fulfilled during the siege of Jerusalem, when many rich Jews were slain by Zealots (Jos. 'Wars,' 5. 10)....
WHAT *FAITH SHOULD DO JAMES _IAN MACKERVOY_ The word list at the end explains words with a *star by them. CHAPTER 5 JUDGEMENT OF THE RICH 5:1-6 V1 Now, you rich people, weep and cry aloud. Th...
YOUR GOLD AND SILVER... — In like manner, the gold and silver are said to be “cankered,” or eaten up with rust. The precious metals themselves do not corrode, but the base alloy does, which has been m...
CHAPTER 23 THE FOLLIES AND INIQUITIES OF THE RICH; THEIR MISERABLE END. James 5:1 HERE, if anywhere in the Epistle, the writer glances aside from the believing Jews of the Dispersion, to whom the l...
κατίωται : in Sir 12:11 we have καὶ γνώσῃ ὅτι οὐκ εἰς τέλος κατίωσεν in reference to a mirror; the Hebrew, which is followed by the Syriac, is corrupt, but evidently read חלאה, which is the same word...
PATIENTLY AWAIT THE LORD'S COMING James 5:1 There are many among the rich who are using money as a sacred trust. Not against these does the Apostle utter his terrible anathemas, but against those who...
Approaching the conclusion of his letter, the writer addressed a terrible indictment and solemn warning to the rich. He showed the failure of possessions, and how they may become the curse of life. S...
THE ABUSIVE RICH WILL BE JUDGED James had a message for the oppressive rich. He asked for their close attention, as in 4:13, by saying "Come now." This time he is speaking to the rich. His message see...
Go now rich men, &c. In the first six verses, he gives admonitions to those among the Christians who were rich, not to rely on riches, nor value themselves on this account. You must look upon your ric...
Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. (2) Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. (3) Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of...
To the reader who enters on the consideration of the epistle of James from the epistles of Paul, the change is great and sudden, and by no means least of all from the epistle to the Hebrews, which, in...
3_A witness against you_. He confirms the explanation I have already given. For God has not appointed gold for rust, nor garments for moths; but, on the contrary, be has designed them as aids and help...
The two classes in Israel are distinctly marked here in contrast with one another, with the addition of the walk which the Christian ought to pursue when chastised by the Lord. The apostle gives the c...
YOUR GOLD AND SILVER IS CANKERED,.... Or grown rusty like iron, by lying long without use; this is not easily and quickly done, but in length of time gold and silver will change, and contract a rustin...
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. Ver. 3. _And shall...
_Your riches are corrupted_ Greek, σεσηπε, _are putrefied_, or are as things putrefied by being kept too long. The riches of the ancients consisted much in large stores of corn, wine, oil, and costly...
CANKERED; from having been hoarded up, instead of being used. EAT YOUR FLESH; the same rust that bears witness against them shall consume them as fire; that is, shall bring upon them the consuming ju...
Verses 1 Timothy 6 are addressed to rich men, and no doubt specially to those who make some claim of having the knowledge of God. They are bidden to weep and howl for the miseries that will take them,...
In what way is the gold and silver corrupted? How is that corrosion a witness against the rich? Is it wrong to save? Have a bank account? Buy stocks? Is it OK to have insurance? Health insurance? Life...
"Your gold and your silver have rusted; and their rust will be. witness against you and will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have stored up your treasure!"Your gold and y...
1-6 Public troubles are most grievous to those who live in pleasure, and are secure and sensual, though all ranks suffer deeply at such times. All idolized treasures will soon perish, except as they...
YOUR GOLD AND SILVER IS CANKERED; the most precious and lasting metals; yet even they, with long disuse, canker, and go to decay. Under these, other metals in esteem among them may be understood. AND...
James 5:3 Your G5216 gold G5557 and G2532 silver G696 corroded G2728 (G5769) and G2532 their G846 corrosion...
‘Your riches are corrupted, And your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and your silver are corroded, And their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, And will eat your flesh as fire, ‘Yo...
DIATRIBE AGAINST THE UNGODLY RICH (JAMES 5:1). Notice the complete contrast between the rich as described here and those who are being tested and tried in the opening words of the letter, ‘count it al...
James 5:3. YOUR GOLD AND YOUR SILVER: the other treasures in which their riches consisted. IS CANKERED: corroded, eaten through with rust. Literally, gold and silver do not contract rust, and hence...
St. James, having warned his readers against worldliness, and exhorted them to humility before God, proceeds to censure the rich for their forgetfulness of their dependence upon God, their proud confi...
ARE RUSTED (κατιωτα). Perfect passive indicative (singular for χρυσος and αργυρος are grouped as one) of κατιοω, late verb (from ιος, rust) with perfective sense of κατα, to rust through (down to t...
CONTENTS: Warning to the rich. Exhortations in view of Christ's second coming. CHARACTERS: Christ, Job, Elias, James. CONCLUSION: Great amassing of wealth will be a sign of the last days, but woe to...
James 5:1. _Go to now,_ or go now, _ye rich men._ He had taught them humility, because their glory vanished away as the flower of the field: chap. James 1:10. He now calls upon them _to weep and howl_...
YOUR GOLD AND SILVER. They rust (tarnish) because they have been stored away so long. This shows they have been hoarded. Hoarded wealth, gotten by cheating the poor, will be a curse to the one who hoa...
JAMES—NOTE ON JAMES 5:1 The rich people mentioned here are probably not believers (compare James 2:6). ⇐
JAMES—NOTE ON JAMES 5:2 RICHES, GARMENTS, and GOLD summarize the materialistic lifestyle of these landowners. These possessions will be lost forever. They will also be...
RULES FOR DAILY CONDUCT _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ James 5:1. RICH MEN.—Always in Scripture, the men who are proud of their riches, centred in their riches, and are nothing but rich. The good ma...
EXPOSITION JAMES 5:1 DENUNCIATION OF THE RICH FOR (1) GRINDING DOWN THE POOR AND KEEPING BACK THEIR WAGES;...
Now in chapter five he takes on the rich. So this doesn't apply to many of us. Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, your garment...
2 Peter 3:3; 2 Timothy 2:17; Acts 2:17; Deuteronomy 32:33; De
Is cankered [κ α τ ι ω τ α ι]. Only here in New Testament, from ijov, rust, as in the following sentence. Also poison, as ch. 3 8. The preposition kata indicates thoroughness, completely rusted. Flesh...
The canker of them — Your perishing stores and motheaten garments. Will be a testimony against you — Of your having buried those talents in the earth, instead of improving them according to your Lord'...
Are riches a blessing or a curse? PROBLEM: Solomon lauded riches as a blessing from God, saying, “In the house of the righteous there is much treasure” (Proverbs 15:6; cf. Psalms 112:3). However, Jam...