Wesley's Explanatory Notes
James 1:24
He beheld himself, and went away — To other business. And forgot — But such forgetting does not excuse.
He beheld himself, and went away — To other business. And forgot — But such forgetting does not excuse.
FOR IF ANY BE ... - The ground of the comparison in these verses is obvious. The apostle refers to what all persons experience, the fact that we do not retain a distinct impression of ourselves after...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. TRIALS AND THE EXERCISE OF FAITH CHAPTER 1 _ 1. Trials and the power of faith (James 1:1)_ 2. The resources of faith (James 1:5) 3. The realization of faith (James 1:9...
Be sure of it (_cf. mg.),_ he goes on, and turns to ask what conduct right views of God should produce. Humility and self-control, firstly, then purity, gentleness, and teachableness, with unsparing h...
GREETINGS (James 1:1) _ 1:1 James, the slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sends greetings to the twelve tribes who are scattered throughout the world._ At the very beginning of his letter Ja...
Prove yourselves to be doers of the word, and not only hearers, for those who think that hearing is enough deceive themselves. For, if a man is a hearer of the word and not a doer of it, he is like a...
BEHOLDETH. beheld. See James 1:23. GOETH, &C. = departed. FORGETTETH. forgot....
_For he beholdeth himself_ The Greek gives a subtle variation in the tenses. "For he BEHELD himself" (the momentary act), and HATH GONE AWAY (the completed departure continuing in the present), and FO...
ἈΠΕΛΉΛΥΘΕΝ ΚΑῚ ΕΥ̓ΘΈΩΣ ἘΠΕΛΆΘΕΤΟ ὉΠΟΙ͂ΟΣ ἯΝ. The tenses are used with great exactness: the perfect denotes immediate succession and enduring result, ‘he has gone and is still away’; comp. _terra tremi...
19–27. THE CHRISTIAN LIFE, CHARACTER AND WORSHIP This theme incidentally arises from the thought of temptation, as moral or religious error, and is immediately connected with the expression ἀπαρχήν τ...
_SCRIPTURAL VIEW OF THE_ WORD OF GOD -- JAMES 1:18-25 : The person who loves God will respond to his word. It is God alone who is able to save us. "Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth.....
ΚΑΤΕΝΌΗΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΚΑΤΑΝΟΈΩ (G2657) рассматривать внимательно (_см._ James 1:23). ΆΠΕΛΉΛΥΘΕΝ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΑΠΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G565) уходить. _Perf._ здесь обозначает немедленный, быстрый р...
CHAPTER III _RECEIVING FROM GOD_ James 1:16-27 _Introduction_ After fourteen verses of showing the Way of the Wise, James has concluded that our trials are good for us, producing steadfastnessthat...
SERMON OUTLINES HOW TO LISTEN TO A SERMON James 1:20-25 Introduction: If a sermon is wasted, the time gone is multiplied by every person who fails to hear. If 100 people fail to hear one half-hour s...
LISTENING IS POINTLESS WITHOUT DOING _Text 1:22-25_ James 1:22. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves. 23. For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a d...
For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. BEHOLDETH, [ katenoeesen (G2657) ... apeleeluthen (G565)] - 'he contemplated himself and half gone...
VERSE 24. HE BEHOLDETH HIMSELF. That is, he saw his, natural face in the mirror certainly, but even then he scanned it so negligently that he failed to discern the splotches or other prominent marks....
1 James is never called an apostle and does not write this epistle in that character. Rather, he puts himself in the place of a slave. Hence the epistle is not concerned with authoritative teaching so...
THE POWER OF FAITH UNDER TEMPTATION 1. Servant] better, 'slave.' The word does not suggest any degradation, but only absolute surrender to the Master. St. James's humility prevents the mention of the...
WHAT *FAITH SHOULD DO JAMES _IAN MACKERVOY_ The word list at the end explains words with a *star by them. INTRODUCTION 1 THE WRITER James is the writer of the letter. But he does not tell us...
FOR HE BEHOLDETH HIMSELF... — Better, _for he beheld himself and went his way, and straightway forgot what he was._ Like the simile in James 1:11, this is described as an actual occurrence, seen and n...
(2-27) Immediately after the salutation, and with more or less a play upon the word which we translate “greeting” (“rejoice,” James 1:1; “count it all joy,” James 1:2) there follow appeals on behalf o...
CHAPTER 9 THE DELUSION OF HEARING WITHOUT DOING-THE MIRROR OF GOD'S WORD. James 1:22 HERE we reach what on the whole seems to be the main thought of the Epistle - the all-importance of Christian act...
James 1:21-25 form a self-contained section. By putting away all impurity the “implanted word” can influence the heart; but it is necessary not only to hear the word but also to act in accordance with...
κατενόησεν … ἀπελήλυθεν : gnomic aorists, see note on ἀνέτειλεν, James 1:11....
DOERS, NOT HEARERS ONLY James 1:19 Keep your mouth closed when you are angry; the inner fire will die out of itself, if you keep the doors and windows shut. In James 1:18 we are taught that God's tru...
James wrote to Christians in the midst of temptation and trial. He showed first that the issue of testing is that they "may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing." It is therefore to be looked upo...
DOING WHAT WE HEAR The word is only able to save if we hear and do what we hear (Matthew 7:21-27; Romans 2:13). Woods says the verb tense here in the word "doers" is such that it denotes a continuous...
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. (23) For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: (24)...
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...
The Epistle of James is not addressed to the assembly, and does not take the ground of apostolic authority over the persons to whom it is sent. It is a practical exhortation which still recognises the...
FOR HE BEHOLDETH HIMSELF, AND GOETH HIS WAY,.... He takes a slight glance of himself, and departs: AND STRAIGHTWAY FORGETTETH WHAT MANNER OF MAN HE WAS; he forgets either his spots, blemishes, and im...
For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. Ver. 24. _Straightway forgetteth_] Naturalists make mention of a certain creature called _cervarius,...
_If any be a hearer of the word_ merely, _and not a doer_ If he do not comply with its design, do not so consider and believe it as to lay it to heart, and be influenced by its doctrines, obey its pre...
HE BEHOLDETH; the gospel shows a man himself. FORGETTETH; if a man does not obey the gospel, its impressions on him will be short....
FOR HE BEHOLDETH HIMSELF, AND GOETH HIS WAY, AND STRAIGHTWAY FORGETTETH WHAT MANNER OF MAN HE WAS....
Doers of the Word:...
This chapter has a very close relationship to the Old Testament, for all is seen in connection with God; and Christ is not yet spoken of as the center and essence of all blessing and of all direction...
How do we forget what kind of person we are? Why do we try to forget what kind of person we are? In what way do we observe ourselves? Do we see ourselves differently that others see us? How does an an...
'for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was.' 'has immediately forgotten' -'The departure from the mirror resulted in an immediate forget...
22-25 If we heard a sermon every day of the week, and an angel from heaven were the preacher, yet, if we rested in hearing only, it would never bring us to heaven. Mere hearers are self-deceivers; an...
The remembrance of what his face is vanisheth as soon as his eye is off the glass; he remembers not the spots he saw in his face, to wipe them off. So he that sees the blemishes of his soul in the gla...
James 1:24 for G1063 observes G2657 (G5656) himself G1438 G2532 away G565 (G5754) and G2532 immediately...
‘For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like to a man beholding his natural face in a mirror, for he beholds himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what manner of man he...
IT IS NOT SUFFICIENT ONLY TO BE A HEARER, IT IS NECESSARY ALSO TO BE A DOER (JAMES 1:22). Having laid a careful foundation in demonstrating that God's People are those whom He has sovereignly begotten...
James 1:24. FOR HE BEHOLDETH HIMSELF, AND GOETH HIS WAY, AND STRAIGHTWAY FORGETTETH. The words are in the lively style of narrative: literally translated they are: ‘For he contemplated himself, and ha...
James 1:19-27. In this passage St. James exhorts his readers to be not only hearers but doers of the word. They are to be swift to hear, and to receive the word implanted within them with freedom from...
HE BEHOLDETH HIMSELF (κατενοησεν εαυτον). Usually explained as gnomic aorist like those in James 1:11, but the ordinary force of the tenses is best here. "He glanced at himself (κατενοησεν aorist) a...
James 1:22 The Danger of mistaking Knowledge for Obedience. I. Knowledge without obedience ends in nothing. It is, as St. James says, like a man who looks at his own face in a glass. For a time he ha...
James 1:1. _James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting._ According to the teaching of some in the present day, the apostle should...
James 1:1. _James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting._ James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. He was an apostle,...
James 1:1. _James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting._ «Where are the lost ten tribes?» asks somebody. They never were lost. Tha...
James 1:1. _James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting._ The apostle James evidently believed in no lost ten tribes, as some nowad...
CONTENTS: Testing of faith. Solicitation to evil not of God. Obedience as a test of true faith. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, James. CONCLUSION: Such as have a true title in Jesus Christ through faith may...
James 1:1. _James, a servant of God, and of the Lord Jesus Christ._ He does not style himself an _apostle,_ because he would not assume any superiority; yet the majesty of his address is the language...
IS LIKE A MAN. "A man looks into a mirror and a few minutes later has forgotten what he looked like....
JAMES—NOTE ON JAMES 1:23 It is useless for a man to look INTENTLY AT HIS NATURAL FACE IN A MIRROR and then forget WHAT HE WAS LIKE. This shows the foolishness of examining oneself in God’s “mirror,” t...
JAMES—NOTE ON JAMES 1:19 Hearing and Doing the Word. This section focuses on living as a Christian directed by “the word of truth,” the gospel (v. James 1:18). Christian living
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ James 1:23. NATURAL FACE.—Lit. “face of his birth”; “the face he has by corporeal birth.” γενέσεως is used in distinction from the notion which follows of spiritual fe...
EXPOSITION JAMES 1:1 SALUTATION. JAMES, A SERVANT OF GOD AND OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. (On the person who thus describes himself, see the Introduction) It is noteworthy that he keeps entirely out of...
Let's turn to James chapter one. James introduces himself as the bondslave of God and of Jesus Christ. It's a title that most of the apostles delighted to take. Renouncing any claim for any rights, tu...
1 Thessalonians 1:5; 2 Peter 3:11; Judges 8:18; Luke 1:66; Luke 7:39;...
He beholdeth [κ α τ ε ν ο η σ ε ν]. The aorist tense, throwing the sentence into a lively, narrative form : he beheld himself and forgot. Compare ver. 11....