James 4 - Introduction
1:3 works (g-8) Works out as an effect. see ver. 20; Philippians 2:12 .... [ Continue Reading ]
1:3 works (g-8) Works out as an effect. see ver. 20; Philippians 2:12 .... [ Continue Reading ]
4:1 pleasures, (g-16) Lit. 'pleasures,' not 'lusts;' there is an additional idea, the satisfaction the heart feels in satisfying, or rather gratifying, lust. see Titus 3:3 .... [ Continue Reading ]
4:4 God? (h-13) Lit. 'the friendship of the world is enmity of God;' but it is the state as between the parties, in English 'with.' In what follows, the same construction in Greek, it is taken up as 'our state towards' God, but this is warning to conscience.... [ Continue Reading ]
4:5 enviously? (i-20) I have, with some hesitation, translated this passage as above. I cannot find that the Greek word is used in a good or holy sense of jealousy. The application to what precedes is evident.... [ Continue Reading ]
4:6 says, (k-8) See Proverbs 3:34 .... [ Continue Reading ]
4:7 patience, (a-1) 'Have it done,' not 'be doing it;' the aorist tense. All the imperatives (ten) from vers. 7 to 10 are in the aorist.... [ Continue Reading ]
4:8 near (a-2) Cleanse (a-12) 'Have it done,' not 'be doing it;' the aorist tense. All the imperatives (ten) from vers. 7 to 10 are in the aorist.... [ Continue Reading ]
4:9 wretched, (a-2) 'Have it done,' not 'be doing it;' the aorist tense. All the imperatives (ten) from vers. 7 to 10 are in the aorist.... [ Continue Reading ]
4:10 yourselves (a-2) 'Have it done,' not 'be doing it;' the aorist tense. All the imperatives (ten) from vers. 7 to 10 are in the aorist.... [ Continue Reading ]
4:12 thy (b-21) Lit. 'the neighbour.'... [ Continue Reading ]
4:14 who (c-2) 'Who are such as do not.'... [ Continue Reading ]