Wesley's Explanatory Notes
James 5:11
We count them happy that endured — That suffered patiently. The more they once suffered, the greater is their present happiness. Ye have seen the end of the Lord — The end which the Lord gave him.
We count them happy that endured — That suffered patiently. The more they once suffered, the greater is their present happiness. Ye have seen the end of the Lord — The end which the Lord gave him.
Verse 11. _WE COUNT THEM HAPPY WHICH ENDURE._] According to that saying of our blessed Lord, _Blessed are ye when men shall_ _persecute and revile you-for so persecuted they the prophets which_ _were...
BEHOLD, WE COUNT THEM HAPPY WHICH ENDURE - The word rendered “we count them happy” (μακαρίζομεν makarizomen,) occurs only here and in Luke 1:48, where it is rendered “shall call me blessed.” The word...
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...
Patience in James 5:7; James 5:10 is different from endurance in n, Hebrews 12:1 f.; it is the opposite of short-temperedness or impatience. The farmer does his work and then can only wait for a harve...
Brothers, take as an example of patience in hardship the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. Look you, we count those who endure blessed. You have heard of Job's steadfast endurance and you ha...
THE WORTHLESSNESS OF RICHES (James 5:1-3)...
COUNT... HAPPY. Greek. _makarizo._ Only here and Luke 1:48 (call blessed). HAVE. Omit. PATIENCE. As in Titus 2:2. SEEN. saw. App-133. END. Compare Job 42:6. VERY PITIFUL. Gr polusplan
Comfort and Counsel for the Poor 7. _Be patient therefore_ More literally, BE LONG-SUFFERING. The logical sequence implied in "therefore" is that the "brethren" whom St James addresses should follow t...
_we count them happy which endure_ Better, WE CALL THEM BLESSED, the verb being formed from the adjective used in ch. James 1:12. Comp. Luke 2:48. The words may contain a reference to Daniel 12:12. Ye...
ὙΠΟΜΕΊΝΑΝΤΑΣ אBP, Old Latin and Vulgate, ὑπομένοντας KL and several versions—the distinction is important, see below. 11. ΤΟῪΣ ὙΠΟΜΕΊΝΑΝΤΑΣ, THOSE WHO ENDURED, indicating special instances of enduran...
_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 _aor. imper. act. от_ ΌΡΆΩ (G3708) видеть, ΜΑΚΑΡΊΖΟΜΕΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΜΑΚΑΡΊΖΩ (G3106) считать счастливым, считать блаженным. Это слово относится к преобладающей привычке считать постоянс...
DISCOURSE: 2376 THE PATIENCE OF JOB James 5:11. _Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy_. ONE of the most singular...
BEHOLD, WE COUNT THEM HAPPY WHICH ENDURE.— "Do we look upon them as forsaken of God, because they were persecuted for righteousness' sake? Or will any wise person say, that their sufferings were any t...
VICTORY WILL COME, FOR GOD IS REAL _Text 5:10-12_ James 5:10 Take, brethren, for an example of suffering and patience, the prophets who spake in the name of the Lord. 11. Behold, we call them bles...
CHAPTER X _RESIST FIERCELY, BRETHREN!_ James 5:7-12 _Introduction_ After the very vivid account of the vengeance that belongs to God, and the just judgment that will come to their persecutor, James...
Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. COUNT THEM HAPPY (Matthew 5:10...
VERSE 11 BEHOLD, WE COUNT THEM HAPPY WHICH ENDURE."We"; that includes both the writer and the persons addressed. Count them blessed, or happy, that endure. This is said of the prophets who suffered an...
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...
5:11 endurance (b-14) _ Hupomone_ . see Note f, ver. 7....
PATIENCE] better, 'endurance.' This is the only NT. reference to Job, though the book is quoted 1 Corinthians 3:19. END OF THE LORD] In the end God turned Job's sorrow into joy, and showed that He is...
REBUKE AND ENCOURAGEMENT 2. Are corrupted, etc.] prophetic tense, in which the future is spoken of as though it were already come to pass....
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...
WE COUNT THEM HAPPY WHICH ENDURE. — Rather read it, _we count them blessed which endure_; or, as some critics would have it, _endured._ (See Matthew 5:11, and 1 Peter 2:19.) The heathen philosopher So...
CHAPTER 24 PATIENCE IN WAITING-THE ENDURANCE OF JOB-THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MENTION OF JOB BY ST. JAMES. James 5:7 "BE patient, therefore, brethren." The storm of indignation is past, and from this...
μακαρίζομεν : _Cf._ 4Ma 18:13, used in reference to Daniel. Ἰώβ : Job occupies a high place of honour in post-biblical Jewish literature, _cf._ the pseudepigraphic work “The Testament of Job”. τὸ τέλο...
The section 7 11 is a Christian adaptation of the earlier Jewish conception of the Messianic Era; in place of αἱ ἐσχάται ἡμέραι there is ἡ παρουσία τοῦ Κυρίου, the one a specifically Jewish, the other...
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...
THOSE WHO ENDURE ARE BLESSED The prophets suffered for God. The Greek word for "suffering" which James uses in reference to the prophets is one which designates external pressure (Matthew 23:34; Luke...
Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the (e) end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. (e) What end the Lord gave....
Be patient, &c. He now in these five following verses turns his discourse from the rich to the poor, exhorting them to patience till the coming of the Lord to judgment, which draweth near; his coming...
Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter ra...
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...
_HUMAN SUFFERING AND DIVINE PITY_ ‘Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.’ James 5:11 Human suffering and Divin...
11_The patience of Job_. Having spoken generally of the prophets, he now refers to an example remarkable above others; for no one, as far as we can learn from histories, has ever been overwhelmed with...
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, WE COUNT THEM HAPPY WHICH ENDURE,.... Affliction, with courage, constancy, and patience, and hold out to the end; for such shall be saved; theirs is the kingdom of heaven; they are happy now,...
Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. Ver. 11. _We count them happy_]...
_Take the prophets_ Once persecuted like you, even for _speaking in the name of the Lord_ The very men that gloried in having the prophets, yet could not bear their message. Nor did either the holines...
THE PATIENCE OF JOB; his endurance of trials. THE END OF THE LORD; the happy end to which he brought Job's sufferings. Job 42:10; Job 42:12....
Admonition to patience:...
BEHOLD, WE COUNT THEM HAPPY WHICH ENDURE. YE HAVE HEARD OF THE PATIENCE OF JOB, AND HAVE SEEN THE END OF THE LORD; THAT THE LORD IS VERY PITIFUL AND OF TENDER MERCY. Probably the thought of the uncomp...
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,...
What is the blessing of endurance? Is the Christian race a sprint or a long distance run? What is required for us to endure? How long must we endure? See Revelation 2:10 See 1 Corinthians 13:4 After l...
"Behold, we count those blessed who endured. You have heard of the endurance of Job and have seen the outcome of the Lord's dealings, that the Lord is full of compassion and is merciful"."we counted t...
7-11 Consider him that waits for a crop of corn; and will not you wait for a crown of glory? If you should be called to wait longer than the husbandman, is not there something more worth waiting for?...
WE COUNT THEM HAPPY WHICH ENDURE; we ourselves count them happy that endure, and therefore should be patient, and not count ourselves miserable if we endure too. WHICH ENDURE; viz. patiently and const...
James 5:11 Indeed G2400 (G5628) blessed G3106 (G5719) endure G5278 (G5723) heard G191 (G5656) perseverance...
‘Behold, we call them blessed who endured.' See Daniel 12:12. Indeed those who suffered like this in the past and patiently endured were not to be commiserated with, they were to be called blessed, fo...
A CALL TO PATIENT ENDURANCE IN THE LIGHT OF THE LORD'S COMING (JAMES 5:7). James now turns back to those who are true ‘brothers' and exhorts them to patient endurance, and to watch their tongues, in t...
James 5:11. BEHOLD, WE COUNT. St. James here speaks of this not as his own judgment but as the judgment of all Christians, it may be of all right-thinking men. THEM HAPPY WHICH ENDURE: literally, ‘bl...
James 5:7-20. St. James concludes his Epistle with a variety of admonitions. He first exhorts his readers to patience; they are to exercise forbearance toward their oppressors and trust toward God, be...
WE CALL BLESSED (μακαριζομεν). Old word (present active indicative of μακαριζω), from μακαριος (happy), in N.T. only here and Luke 1:48. "We felicitate." As in James 1:3; James 1:12;...
James 5:11 Note: I. The character here given to God: "The Lord is very pitiful and of tender mercy." (1) "Pitiful." Pity is a feeling for, a feeling with, the distressed. The pity of God is of high q...
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_...
WE CALL THEM HAPPY. See Matthew 5:11-12; 3 John 1:3-5 and notes. JOB'S PATIENCE. Job was a real person and his life-story teaches us a great lesson about being patient. FOR THE LORD. "He is full of me...
JAMES—NOTE ON JAMES 5:11 The theme of enduring trials recalls James 1:2, James 1:12....
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ James 5:7. Margin, “suffer with long patience.” St. James inculcates a systematic course of action. EARLY AND LATTER RAIN.—_Early_ rain fell from October to February,...
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...
1 Chronicles 21:13; 1 Peter 1:13; 1 Peter 1:6; 1 Peter 1:7;...
Endure [υ π ο μ ε ν ο ν τ α ς]. Present participle. But the later texts read uJpomeinantav, the aorist participle, which endured; referring to the prophets in the past ages. So Rev. On endured and pat...
That is, all persons do judge and pronounce those that have suffered death, for righteousness sake, to be in. very happy condition; though they live persecuted, yet they die sainted. Living saints are...