Wesley's Explanatory Notes
James 4:12
There is one lawgiver that is able — To execute the sentence he denounces. But who art thou — A poor, weak, dying worm.
There is one lawgiver that is able — To execute the sentence he denounces. But who art thou — A poor, weak, dying worm.
JAMES 4:12 @o`# (1) {C} Because manuscript evidence for and against the inclusion of o` before nomoqe,thj is rather evenly balanced, with no compelling considerations arising from either palaeography...
Verse 12. _THERE IS ONE LAWGIVER_] και κριτης, _And judge_, is added here by AB, about _thirty_ others, with both the _Syriac_, Erpen's _Arabic_, the _Coptic, Armenian, AEthiopic, Slavonic,_ _Vulgate_...
THERE IS ONE LAWGIVER - There is but one who has a right to give law. The reference here is undoubtedly to the Lord Jesus Christ, the great Legislator of the church. This, too, is a most important and...
IV. FURTHER EXHORTATIONS TO RIGHT LIVING CHAPTER 4 _ 1. Fightings and worldliness rebuked (James 4:1)_ 2. The Godly walk (James 4:7) James 4:1 A strong rebuke follows the statements concerning the...
MAN'S PLEASURE OR GOD'S WILL? (James 4:1-3)...
Stop talking harshly about each other. He who speaks harshly of his brother, or who judges his brother, speaks harshly of the law and judges the law; and, if you judge the law, you are not a doer of t...
LAWGIVER. Greek. _nomothetes._ Only here. Compare Romans 9:4.Hebrews 7:11. DESTROY. Compare James 1:11 (perish). ANOTHER. the other. App-124. The texts read "neighbour", as in...
_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 and ultimate Judge (comp....
ΚΑῚ ΚΡΙΤΉΣ with אABP and most versions: KL and others omit. Ὁ ΚΡΊΝΩΝ with אABP: ὄς κρίνεις KL and the later MSS. ΤῸΝ ΠΛΗΣΊΟΝ on the same evidence, as against τὸν ἔτερον. 12. ΝΟΜΟΘΈΤΗΣ. ἅπ. λεγ. in...
CH. 4:1–12. THE STRUGGLE AGAINST THE DESIRES OF THE FLESH WHICH ARE THE CAUSE OF EVIL CONTENTION...
_DO NOT JUDGE A BROTHER -- JAMES 4:11-12:_ Everything that we say about others must be guided by the law of kindness and the spirit of Christ. Solomon said of the worthy woman, "She openeth her mouth...
ΕΙΣ (G1520) один, используется эмфатически. ΝΟΜΟΘΈΤΗΣ (G3550) тот, кто дает закон. ΔΥΝΆΜΕΝΟΣ _praes. pass. (dep.) part. от_ ΔΎΝΑΜΑΙ (G1410) быть способным, с _inf._ ΣΏΣΑΙ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΣΏΖΩ ...
THERE IS ONE LAWGIVER,— Dr. Bentley would close the last verse with the words, _Thou art not a doer of the law,_ and begin the present, _But there is one Judge—the Lawgiver._ Christ is here called the...
JUDGING OUR BRETHREN _Text 4:11-12_ 11. Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaketh against a brother or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law: but if tho...
CHAPTER VIII _CAUSE AND REMEDY OF STRIFE_ James 4:1-12 _Introduction_ Can it be possible that the church of Jesus Christ could descend to the sins mentioned here so soon after Pentecost? In less th...
There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another? THERE IS ONE LAWGIVER. 'Aleph (') A B, Vulgate, 'and judge' [ ho (G3588) nomothetees (G3550) kai (G2532...
VERSE 12 THERE IS ONE LAWGIVER. There is only one lawgiver, Jesus the Christ, and there is none other. He, and he alone, is the author and finisher of the faith. He can save, and he alone, and he will...
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...
4:12 thy (b-21) Lit. 'the neighbour.'...
DENUNCIATION OF GREED AND LOVE OF PLEASURE 1. Lusts] better, 'pleasures.'...
WHAT *FAITH SHOULD DO JAMES _IAN MACKERVOY_ The word list at the end explains words with a *star by them. CHAPTER 4 DESIRES AND DIVISIONS 4:1-10 V1 You know where all the fights and quarrels...
THERE IS ONE LAWGIVER.... — Better thus: _One is the Law-giver and Judge, Who is able to save and to destroy: but thou_ — _who art thou that judgest a neighbour_? As a king is the fountain of honour,...
CHAPTER 21 SELF-ASSURANCE AND INVASION OF DIVINE PREROGATIVES INVOLVED IN THE LOVE OF CENSURING OTHERS. James 4:11 FROM sins which are the result of a want of love to God St. James passes on, and ab...
CHAPTER 18 ST. JAMES AND PLATO ON LUSTS AS THE CAUSES OF STRIFE; THEIR EFFECT ON PRAYER. James 4:1 THE change from the close of the third chapter to the beginning of the fourth is startling. St. Jam...
εἷς ἐστιν νομοθέτης καὶ κριτής; the words are intended to show the arrogant impertinence of those who were judging their neighbours on a misinterpretation of the Law. The word νομοθέτης does not occur...
The subject of these verses, speaking against and judging others, is the same as that of the section James 2:1-13; they follow on quite naturally after James 4:12-13 of that chapter, while they have n...
“IF THE LORD WILL” James 4:11 When we speak evil of another, we usurp the functions of the only lawgiver and judge. If that other is endeavoring to model his life by the law, to speak evil of him is...
The writer now dealt with the effect of faith on character. Everything depends on desire. To attempt to satisfy a natural desire without reference to God is futile, and issues in internal conflict and...
BRETHREN SHOULD NOT JUDGE ONE ANOTHER The verb James used in 4:11 is in the present durative tense and actually means "stop speaking evil of one another". Evidently, they had already been doing such s...
(7) Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. (8) Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doub...
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...
12_There is one lawgiver _(134) Now he connects the power of saying and destroying with the office of a lawgiver, he intimates that the whole majesty of God is forcibly assumed by those who claim for...
In all that follows we have still the judgment of unbridled nature, of will in its different forms: contentions that arise from the lusts of the natural heart; request made to God proceeding from the...
THERE IS ONE LAWGIVER,.... The Alexandrian copy, and others, and the Syriac, Ethiopic, and Vulgate Latin versions, add, "and judge". Who is the one only Lord God, Isaiah 33:22. This is a character tha...
There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another? Ver. 12. _There is one lawgiver_] What dost thou then do perking into his place, by censuring and defamin...
_Speak not evil one of another_ See on Titus 3:2. Evil- speaking is a grand hinderance of peace and comfort; yea, and of holiness. O who is sufficiently aware of the evil of that sin? _He that speaket...
ONE LAWGIVER; Jesus Christ, and only one. All therefore are bound to yield cheerful, prompt, unwavering obedience to him. WHO ARE THOU; frail, sinful, dying man, that thou usurpest the place of Christ...
THERE IS ONE LAWGIVER, WHO IS ABLE TO SAVE AND TO DESTROY; WHO ART THOU THAT JUDGEST ANOTHER? The humility which is required of Christians will show itself not only in their behavior toward God, but a...
Against uncharitable judging:...
This chapter, to the end of v.6, continues the subject begun in Ch.3:13. Sensual. devilish wisdom was accompanied by wars and fightings: but this proceeded from the lusts of the flesh active within th...
Who is the one Lawgiver? In what way does God have the power to save or destroy? Does God send people to hell? Why do we judge each other?...
"There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you who judge your neighbor?"There is only one Lawgiver and Judge" -Far more is at stake than just respec...
11-17 Our lips must be governed by the law of kindness, as well as truth and justice. Christians are brethren. And to break God's commands, is to speak evil of them, and to judge them, as if they lai...
THERE IS ONE LAWGIVER; one absolute, supreme, universal and spiritual Lawgiver, and who can simply and directly bind men's consciences, and make laws for their souls, PROVERBS 8:15,16 ISA 33:22 ACTS 4...
James 4:12 is G2076 (G5748) one G1520 Lawgiver G3550 who G3588 able G1410 (G5740) save G4982 ...
A WARNING AGAINST BEING JUDGES OF OTHERS AND THUS PRE-EMPTING GOD (JAMES 4:11 A). The passage commences with a warning. Aware that his strong words and his appeal to repentance could now result in som...
HE NOW REMINDS THEM THAT THEY NEED TO SEE LIFE IN TERMS OF THE LAST DAY (JAMES 4:11 TO JAMES 5:12). From this point on until James 5:12 there will be an emphasis on judgment, and on seeing life in the...
CHRISTIANS NEED TO FACE UP TO THE FRAILTY OF THEIR LIVES (JAMES 4:12). The contrast between man in his inability to act as judge in contrast with the great Judge Himself, now leads up to the question...
James 4:12. THERE IS ONE LAWGIVER. Most manuscripts read, ‘There is one Lawgiver and Judge:' and this is more suitable to the context, as it is the province of a judge that is adverted to. These are n...
James 4:1-12. St. James warns his readers against those evil passions which gave rise to wars and fightings among them. They must moderate their desires, and guard against self-gratification. If they...
ONE ONLY (εις). No "only" in the Greek, but εις here excludes all others but God.THE LAWGIVER (ο νομοθετης). Old compound (from νομοσ, τιθημ), only here in N.T. In Psalms 9:20. Cf. νομοθετεω in He...
SAVE (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 1:16). _...
James 4:11 Evil-speaking. Part of the Christian life has to do with the tongue, and looking at it in its social aspect, the greatest part. The ways in which the sin forbidden in the text may be comm...
James 4:1. _From whence come wars and fightings among you?_ Whether between nations, or parties or individuals,-if there be wars and fightings, whence do they come? James 4:1. _Come they not hence,...
CONTENTS: Rebuke of worldliness and exhortation to humility before God. CHARACTERS: God, Satan. CONCLUSION: Worldly and fleshly lusts are the distemper which will not allow contentment or satisfacti...
James 4:1. _From whence come wars and fightings among you?_ St. James saw in the Spirit the bloody and cruel wars which would rise among christian powers, much the same as among the heathen. He had a...
GOD IS THE ONLY LAWGIVER AND JUDGE. The _Expositor's Greek Testament_ says: "The words are intended to show the arrogant impertinence of those who were judging their neighbors on a misinterpretation o...
JAMES—NOTE ON JAMES 4:12 When a person begins to “judge the law,” he rebels against the ONE LAWGIVER AND JUDGE. God alone gave the law. He alone is judge of all (Psalms 9:19;...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ James 4:11. SPEAK NOT EVIL.—Backbite (Romans 1:30; 2 Corinthians 12:20). Omit “and” before “judgeth.”...
EXPOSITION JAMES 4:1 REBUKE OF QUARRELS ARISING FROM PRIDE AND GREED. A terribly sadden transition from the "peace" with which James 3:1. closed....
This chapter could be entitled how to win friends and influence people. Guard your tongue, bring your tongue under control, use it for good, use it to encourage to build up, don't use it to tear down,...
1 Samuel 25:10; Hebrews 7:25; Isaiah 33:22; Job 38:2; Luke 12:5;...
There is one lawgiver [ε ι ς ε σ τ ι ν ο ν ο μ ο θ ε τ η ς]. The A. V. fails to note the emphatic position of one. Better, Rev., one only is the lawgiver. Nomoqethv, lawgiver, only here in New Testame...