Wesley's Explanatory Notes
James 5:2
The riches of the ancients consisted much in large stores of corn, and of costly apparel.
The riches of the ancients consisted much in large stores of corn, and of costly apparel.
Verse James 5:2. _YOUR RICHES ARE CORRUPTED_] σεσηπε. Are _putrefied_. The term πλουτος, _riches_, is to be taken here, not for _gold,_ _silver_, or _precious stones_, (for these could not _putrefy_,...
YOUR RICHES ARE CORRUPTED - The word here rendered “corrupted” (σήπω sēpō) does not occur elsewhere in the New Testament. It means, to cause to rot, to corrupt, to destroy. The reference here is to...
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)...
RICHES. wealth. The Greek word _ploutos_ conveys the idea of abundance. Compare Luke 12:19. CORRUPTED. Greek. _sepo_. Only here. ARE. have become. MOTHEATEN. Greek. _setobrotos._ Only here....
_Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten_ The union of the two chief forms of Eastern wealth in this and the following verse, reminds us of the like combination in Matthew 6:19, "wh...
ΣΈΣΗΠΕΝ … ΓΈΓΟΝΕΝ … ΚΑΤΊΩΤΑΙ. The tense implies that the case indicated by ταλαιπωρίαις is already present. The tarnishing of the gold and silver is an accomplished fact. The words bring out the thoug...
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...
ΣΈΣΗΠΕΝ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΣΉΠΩ (G4595) быть гнилым. _Perf._ обозначает состояние или условие: "сгнило" (Ropes), ΊΜΆΤΙΟΝ (G2440) одеяние. Часто богатство человека было видно по его одежде (_см._ Ja...
YOUR RICHES ARE CORRUPTED,— By _riches_ here are very probably meant their _stores_ of corn, wine, oil, and other perishing goods, which they used to lay up in great abundance: see James 5:4 and Luke...
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 riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. CORRUPTED - about to be destroyed through God's curse for your oppression, whereby your riches are accumulated (). Calvin, Your riches p...
VERSE 2 YOUR RICHES ARE CORRUPTED, AND YOUR GARMENTS MOTH-EATEN. Corrupted; that is, putrefied. Silver and gold as riches are not here referred to, because they are subsequently mentioned. Hence the r...
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....
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 RICHES ARE CORRUPTED... — As expanded in the eloquent gloss of Bishop Wordsworth, “Your wealth is mouldering in corruption, and your garments, stored up in vain superfluity, are become moth-eaten...
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...
The use of the Hebraic prophetic perfects in this passage is another mark of Jewish authorship. ὁ πλοῦτος ὑμῶν : this cannot refer to wealth in the abstract because this would be out of harmony with t...
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...
2_Your riches_. The meaning may be twofold: — that he ridicules their foolish confidence, because the riches in which they placed their happiness, were wholly fading, yea, that they could be reduced t...
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 RICHES ARE CORRUPTED,.... Either through disuse of them; and so the phrase is expressive of their tenaciousness, withholding that from themselves and others which is meet, and which is keeping ri...
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Ver. 2. _Your riches are corrupted_] Being subject to vanity and violence, Matthew 6:19. See the note there. Provide yourselves therefore b...
_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...
ARE CORRUPTED; riches in those days consisted much in large quantities of grain and clothing, which were liable to become worthless by decay....
VARIOUS ADMONITIONS IN VIEW OF THE NEARNESS OF THE JUDGMENT. Exhortation to the rich:...
YOUR RICHES ARE CORRUPTED, AND YOUR GARMENTS ARE MOTH-EATEN....
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,...
How are riches corrupted? Why are the garments moth eaten? Explain: With wealth, why would the garments be worn and moth eaten?...
"Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth-eaten"."have rotted" -"make corrupt, destroy" (Vine p. 243); "cause to rot, decay, decay" (Arndt p. 749). "In Oriental lands, riches, in add...
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 RICHES ARE CORRUPTED: either by _riches_ he means the general, and by GARMENTS, gold and silver, the particulars in which their riches consisted; and then being corrupted, is to be taken generall...
James 5:2 Your G5216 riches G4149 corrupted G4595 (G5754) and G2532 your G5216 garments G2440 are G1096 ...
‘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 5:2. YOUR RICHES ARE CORRUPTED. We have here a description of the doom that was to befall the rich. Your riches, in which you prided yourselves, and in which you trusted, will be taken from you....
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...
RICHES (ο πλουτος). Masculine singular, but occasionally neuter το πλουτος in nominative and accusative (2 Corinthians 8:2). Apparently πλεοτος fulness (from πλεος full, πιμπλημ to fill). "Wealth....
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_...
HAVE ROTTED AWAY. Much of their wealth was in perishable foodstuffs. See note on Matthew 24:21. YOUR CLOTHES. Much wealth was also in the form of clothes, rugs, tapestries, etc....
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...
1 Peter 1:4; Hosea 5:12; Isaiah 50:9; Isaiah 51:8; James 2:2;...
Are corrupted [σ ε σ η π ε ν]. Only here in New Testament. Are moth - eaten [σ η τ ο β ρ ω τ α γ ε γ ο ν ε ν]. Lit., have become moth - eaten. Only here in New Testament, but compare skwlhkobrwtov, ea...
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...