Verse James 5:5. _YE HAVE LIVED IN PLEASURE_] ετρυφησατε. _Ye have_ _lived luxuriously_; feeding yourselves without fear, pampering the flesh. _AND BEEN WANTON_] εσπαταλησατε. _Ye have lived lascivio...
YE HAVE LIVED IN PLEASURE ON THE EARTH - One of the things to which the rich are peculiarly addicted. Their wealth is supposed to be of value, because it furnishes them the means of doing it. Compare...
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...
THE WORTHLESSNESS OF RICHES (James 5:1-3)...
Look you, the pay of the reapers who reaped your estates, the pay kept back from them by you, cries against you, and the cries of those who reaped have come to the ears of the Lord of Hosts. On the ea...
HAVE. Omit. LIVED IN PLEASURE. Greek. _truphao._ Only here. Compare 2 Peter 2:13 (riot). EARTH. App-129. BEEN WANTON. See 1 Timothy 5:6. SLAUGHTER. See Acts 8:32. Compare...
_Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton_ Better, YE LIVED LUXURIOUSLY _and_ SPENT WANTONLY, the latter word emphasising the lavish and profligate expenditure by which the luxury which...
ἘΤΡΥΦΉΣΑΤΕ, YE LIVED DELICATELY. The force of these aorists should be observed; the whole past is reviewed as on a judgment day. τρυφᾶν, here only in N.T. The strengthened form κατατρυφᾶν is beautiful...
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...
ΈΤΡΥΦΉΣΑΤΕ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΤΡΥΦΆΩ (G5171) жить в роскоши. Буквально это слово обозначает "ломать" и обозначает роскошную жизнь, не обязательно тщеславную (Ropes). Обобщ. _aor._ подводит итоги жизн...
YE HAVE LIVED IN PLEASURE, &C.— _Ye have passed your lives in luxury and voluptuousness; ye have satiated yourselves_ [every day] _as on a day of sacrifice._ It is well known that at their high festiv...
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...
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...
Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. 'Ye have luxuriated ... and wantoned.' [ Etrufeesate (G5171), luxurious effeminacy;...
VERSE 5 YE HAVE LIVED IN PLEASURE ON THE EARTH. The sense is that the persons addressed had lived luxuriously on the earth, had lived for pleasure only, had indulged in all sorts of excesses, spending...
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....
AS IN A DAY OF SLAUGHTER] omit 'as,' and cp. Jeremiah 12:3; Jeremiah 25:34....
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...
YE HAVE LIVED IN PLEASURE. — And what an indictment is this brought against them by the Apostle: — _Ye revelled upon earth, and wantoned; ye nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter._ The pleasure...
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...
ἐτρυφήσατε : ἅπ. λεγ. in N.T.; it occurs in Sir 14:4 for the Hebrew בוע, [59] which means “to revel,” followed by ב. Luther translates: Ihr habt wohlgelebet, “Ye have lived well”; but the German word...
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...
Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have (b) nourished your hearts, as in a (c) day of slaughter. (b) You have pampered yourselves. (c) The Hebrews call a day that is appoint...
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...
5_In pleasure_. He comes now to another vice, even luxury and sinful gratifications; for they who abound in wealth seldom keep within the bounds of moderation, but abuse their abundance by extreme ind...
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...
YE HAVE LIVED IN PLEASURE ON THE EARTH,.... This is said of other rich men; for all that is here said is not to be understood of the same individuals, but some things of one, and some of another; some...
Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. Ver. 5. _Ye have lived in pleasure_] Ye have lain melting in sensual delights, which...
_Ye have lived in pleasure, and have been wanton_ Ετρυφησατε και εσπαταλησατε. The former word signifies, _ye have lived luxuriously;_ or, as the Vulgate has it, Epulati estis, _ye have feasted;_ it b...
NOURISHED YOUR HEARTS; made them fat by luxurious living. Fat is said to have no feeling, and the luxurious have few sympathies. AS IN A DAY OF SLAUGHTER; he compares them to beasts that feed to exce...
YE HAVE LIVED IN PLEASURE ON THE EARTH AND BEEN WANTON; YE HAVE NOURISHED YOUR HEARTS AS IN A DAY OF SLAUGHTER....
VARIOUS ADMONITIONS IN VIEW OF THE NEARNESS OF THE JUDGMENT. Exhortation to the rich:...
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,...
Is it wrong to live in pleasure? Does this verse condemn living in luxury? Which are the following - luxury or necessity? Cell phone Microwave Running water Air conditioning Two cars Computer Define:...
"You have lived luxuriously on the earth and led. life of wanton pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in. day of slaughter."You have lived luxuriously" -"a soft and luxurious life" (Thayer p. 631);...
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...
YE HAVE LIVED IN PLEASURE; luxuriously and deliciously, giving up yourselves to your sensual appetites, AMOS 6:4 LUKE 16:19,25. ON THE EARTH; where you place your happiness without looking higher, and...
James 5:5 lived G5171 on G1909 earth G1093 pleasure G5171 (G5656) and G2532 luxury G4684 (G5656) fattened...
‘You have lived delicately on the earth, and been wanton, You have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.' The rich had already received their consolation (Luke 6:24). They have enjoyed ‘soft l...
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 5:5. The second sin is luxury or self-indulgence. YE HAVE LIVED IN PLEASURE ON THE EARTH, AND BEEN WANTON revelled. The Jews at this time were especially addicted to luxury and debauchery. YE H...
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...
YE HAVE LIVED DELICATELY (ετρυφησατε). First aorist (constative, summary) active indicative of τρυφαω, old verb from τρυφη (luxurious living as in Luke 7:25, from θρυπτω, to break down, to enervate...
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_...
YOUR LIFE HERE ON EARTH. "You have lived in luxury and opulence by cheating others. You have had the pleasure, and they have had the hardships! But you have prepared your own doom!" See what Jesus pre...
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 Samuel 25:36; 1 Samuel 25:6; 1 Timothy 5:6; 2 Timothy 3:4; Amos 6:1;...
Ye have lived in pleasure [ε τ ρ υ φ η σ α τ ε]. Only here in New Testament. See on 2 Peter 2:13, on the kindred noun trufh, riot or revel. Rev., ye have lived delicately. Been wanton [ε σ π α τ α λ...
Ye have cherished your hearts — Have indulged yourselves to the uttermost. As in a day of sacrifice — Which were solemn feast — days among the Jews....
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...
The next sin he charges upon them, is sensuality, luxury, lasciviousness, their eating and drinking to excess in their feasts, pampering themselves for the slaughter and the shambles. These are sins v...