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James 5:4
Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth; and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth; and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
JAMES 5:4 avpesterhme,noj {A} The manuscripts present three readings, avfusterhme,noj (a B*) and two forms of avposterei/n, the perfect tense, avpesterhme,noj (A B2 P Y _al_), and...
Verse James 5:4. _THE HIRE OF THE LABOURERS_] The law, Leviticus 19:13, had ordered: _The wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee_ _all night until the morning_, every day's labour being...
BEHOLD, THE HIRE OF THE LABOURERS WHO HAVE REAPED DOWN YOUR FIELDS - In the previous verses the form of the sin which the apostle specified was that they had hoarded their property. He now states anot...
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...
Look you, the pay of the reapers who reaped your estates, the pay kept back from them by you, cries against you, and the cries of those who reaped have come to the ears of the Lord of Hosts. On the ea...
THE WORTHLESSNESS OF RICHES (James 5:1-3)...
BEHOLD. App-133. HIRE. pay. Greek. _misthos,_ Genitive translation "reward". HAVE. Omit. REAPED DOWN. Greek. _amao._ Only here in N.T. occurs five times in Septuagint. Compare Micah 6:15. OF. on t...
_Behold, the hire of the labourers_ The evil was one of old standing in Judæa. The law had condemned those who kept back the wages of the hired labourer even for a single night (Leviticus 19:13). Jere...
ἸΔΟΎ: here as frequently in N.T. a vivid transitional particle. The Jews were agriculturists long before they were traders. It would be a natural step, as they grew in wealth, to acquire land in the c...
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...
ΙΔΟΎ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΌΡΆΩ (G2400) видеть, ΜΙΣΘΌΣ (G3408) награда, плата. ΕΡΓΑΤΏΝ _gen. pl. от_ ΈΡΓΆΤΗΣ (G2040) тот, кто работает, работник, ΆΜΗΣΆΝΤΩΝ _aor. act. part. (adj.) от_ ΆΜΆΩ (G270)...
WHICH IS OF YOU KEPT BACK BY FRAUD,— This was one of their wicked methods of heaping up riches; they were not only covetous and uncharitable, but also unjust: the phrase, _crieth,_ &c. seems to be tak...
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...
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaot...
VERSE 4 BEHOLD, THE HIRE OF THE LABORER. To accomplish your unjust and wicked desire to hoard your gold and silver, you disregarded the law of God, and have kept back the hard-earned wages of the labo...
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...
5:4 sabaoth. (d-35) i.e. Jehovah of hosts as Romans 9:29 ....
REBUKE AND ENCOURAGEMENT 2. Are corrupted, etc.] prophetic tense, in which the future is spoken of as though it were already come to pass....
LORD OF SABAOTH] an OT. phrase = 'Lord of Hosts.' It is not found elsewhere in the NT., except once in a quotation (Romans 9:29)....
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...
BEHOLD, THE HIRE OF THE LABOURERS. — Not merely the wrong of the poor, but the wages kept back from him by the niggardly master, contrary to the merciful Jewish law (Leviticus 19:13), which permitted...
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...
ἰδοὺ : this interjection, though good Attic, is used by some N.T. writers with a frequency which is unclassical, (Mayor) _e.g._, in this short Epistle it occurs six times, while on the other hand St....
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...
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the (a) ears of the Lord of sab...
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...
4_Behold, the hire_. He now condemns cruelty, the invariable companion of avarice. But he refers only to one kind, which, above all others, ought justly to be deemed odious. For if a humane and a just...
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...
BEHOLD THE HIRE OF THE LABOURERS, WHICH HAVE REAPED DOWN YOUR FIELDS,.... The wages agreed for by the day, with the labourers in their fields, particularly their reapers; which one instance serves for...
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth...
_Behold, the hire of the labourers_ The apostle alludes in this verse to Leviticus 19:13: _The wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night:_ and to Deuteronomy 24:15, At his day tho...
CRIETH; to God for vengeance. THE LORD OF SABBATH; the God of hosts; the Almighty. Persons who work for others have a righteous claim to full compensation; and the withholding of it from them is frau...
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,...
Is the laborer worthy of his hire? Is it wrong to withhold wages from the workers? What is fraud? When do the laborers cry out against the fraud? Is it fraud to under pay or withhold pay from workers?...
"Behold, the pay of the laborers who mowed your fields, and which has been withheld by you, cries out against you; and the outcry of those who did the harvesting has reached the ears of the Lord of Sa...
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...
BEHOLD; this is either a note of demonstration, as 1 THESSALONIANS 1:29; q.d. The case is plain, and cannot be denied; or of excitation; q.d. Seriously consider it; or rather, of confirmation, to inti...
James 5:4 Indeed G2400 (G5628) wages G3408 laborers G2040 who G3588 mowed G270 (G5660) your G5216 fields...
‘Behold, the hire of the labourers who mowed your fields, Which is of you kept back by fraud, cries out, And the cries of those who reaped, Have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.' The r...
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 5:4. Now follows a statement of the sins of the rich on account of which they are punished. Three sins are mentioned injustice, luxury, and oppression. The first sin mentioned is injustice. BEHO...
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...
THE HIRE (ο μισθος). Old word for wages (Matthew 20:8).LABOURERS (εργατων). Any one who works (εργαζομα), especially agricultural workers (Matthew 9:37).WHO MOWED (των αμησαντων). Genitive plura...
THE LORD OF SABAOTH That is, Jehovah of hosts....
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_...
YOU HAVE NOT PAID. "You made your wealth by not paying your workers, and have disobeyed God's Law (Leviticus 19:13). He hears their cries! Will He not punish you???...
JAMES—NOTE ON JAMES 5:4 THE LORD OF HOSTS (“Lord of heaven’s armies”) pictures God as a warrior going into battle (1 Samuel 17:45;...
JAMES—NOTE ON JAMES 5:1 The rich people mentioned here are probably not believers (compare James 2:6). ⇐
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...
Colossians 4:1; Deuteronomy 24:14; Deuteronomy 24:15; Exodus 2:23;...
Reaped down [α μ η σ α ν τ ω ν]. Only here in New Testament. The primary meaning is to reap corn; also in classical Greek of mowing down in battle. The secondary, which some mistake for the primary se...
The hire of your labourers crieth — Those sins chiefly cry to God concerning which human laws are silent. Such are luxury, unchastity, and various kinds of injustice. The labourers themselves also cry...
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...
The next sin which our apostle convicts the rich of, and condemns them for, is the sin of oppression, and that of the worst sorts, even of labourers and servants; their covetousness was the cause of t...