Manly Luscombe Commentary on NT
James 4:13
Is it wrong to plan for next year? Is it wrong to plan ahead of time? What is wrong with having long-range plans and goals? Is it wrong to plan to set up a business and make money?
Is it wrong to plan for next year? Is it wrong to plan ahead of time? What is wrong with having long-range plans and goals? Is it wrong to plan to set up a business and make money?
Verse 13. _GO TO NOW_] αγε νυν. _Come now_, the same in meaning as the Hebrew הבה _habah, come_, Genesis 11:3; Genesis 11:4; Genesis 11:7. _Come_, and _hear what I have to say, ye that say_, c....
GO TO NOW - The apostle here introduces a new subject, and refers to another fault which was doubtless prevalent among them, as it is everywhere, that of a presumptuous confidence respecting the futur...
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...
This and the next paragraph denounce the vices of the rich, in the spirit of Amos and Isaiah; that they are Jews, and not Christians, seems obvious, if this epistle is to be got into the first centuri...
MAN'S PLEASURE OR GOD'S WILL? (James 4:1-3)...
Come now, you who say, "Today, or tomorrow, we will go into this city, and we will spend a year there, and we will trade and make a profit." People like you do not know what will happen tomorrow. What...
GO TO. Come. Greek. _age_. Imperative mood of _ago_, used as an adverb. Here and James 5:1. SUCH A. this. AND. Note the Fig, _Polysyndeton._ App-6. CONTINUE. Literally make, or do. Compare Acts 20:...
Man proposing, God disposing 13. _Go to now, ye that say_ The warnings pass on to another form of the worldliness of the double-minded; the far-reaching plans for the future such as our Lord had conde...
ἌΓΕ ΝΥ͂Ν ΟἹ ΛΈΓΟΝΤΕΣ. ἄγε like φέρε, ἴθι, ἰδού and in Modern Greek ἄς for ἄφες, is used with singular and plural subject alike, often to strengthen the imperative: ἀλλʼ ἄγε δή τινα μάντιν ἐρείομεν, Ho...
13–17. THE TEMPTATIONS OF WEALTH The address is still probably to the brethren, some of whom engaged in business have not learnt to recognise God’s law and His will in commercial projects and plans....
_DO NOT BOAST ABOUT TOMORROW -- JAMES 4:13-17:_ James gives a vivid picture of some who made great plans for the future. Their sin was not in planning for the future, but in failing to consider God in...
ΆΓΕ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΆΓ (G71) вести. Imper. здесь является междометием со значением: "идите сюда!" "слушайте!" несколько резкое обращение (Mayor; Ropes), ΛΈΓΟΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΛΈΓΩ ...
DISCOURSE: 2372 THE FOLLY OF UNDUE SECURITY James 4:13. _Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: whereas ye...
WE WILL GO INTO SUCH A CITY,— That is, to _Rome_ or _Alexandria, Tyre_ or _Sidon, Corinth_ or _Ephesus;_ according to the countries into which the Jewish Christians were dispersed, or the trades they...
THE PRESUMPTION OF PLANNING WITHOUT GOD _Text 4:13-17_ James 4:13. Come now ye that say, to-day or to-morrow we will go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade and get gain: 14. whereas...
Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: GO TO NOW - `Come now:' to excite attention. YE THAT SAY - `bo...
VERSE 13 GO TO NOW, YE THAT SAY, TODAY OR TOMORROW."Go to now," as an expression, may have been intelligible in the days of King James of England, when our Common Version was made, but it is not good,...
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...
DENUNCIATION OF GREED AND LOVE OF PLEASURE 1. Lusts] better, 'pleasures.'...
SUCH A CITY] RV 'this city.' The presumption rebuked is that of the rich (? non-Christian) Jewish merchant who travelled for purposes of gain....
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...
YE THAT SAY.... — The Apostle would reason next with the worldly; not merely those abandoned to pleasure, but any and all absorbed in the quest of gain or advancement. The original is represented a li...
CHAPTER 22 SELF-ASSURANCE AND INVASION OF DIVINE PREROGATIVES INVOLVED IN PRESUMING UPON OUR FUTURE-THE DOCTRINE OF PROBABILISM. James 4:13 WORLDLINESS and want of humility are the two kindred subje...
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...
James 4:13-17 form an independent section entirely unconnected with what precedes or follows. The section is very interesting as giving a picture of the commercial _Diaspora_ -Jew. The Jews of the Dis...
Ἄγε : this expression of disapproval occurs only here and in James 5:1 in the N.T.; although it is used here and there in the Septuagint, it is the rendering of different Hebrew words; one may compare...
“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...
"ARE YOU LISTENING?" V. E. Howard, a great gospel preacher, often stopped in the middle of an important point and asked, "Are you listening?" Usually, those who were not, begin doing so at that time....
(8) Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: (8) The other fault is this: That men do so confidently determi...
To-day or to-morrow, &c. An admonition against that presumption, when persons forget the uncertainty of life, and the vanity of all things in this world, which vanish like a vapour, and can never be r...
(13) Go to now, ye that say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: (14) Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is...
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...
13_Go to now_. He condemns here another kind of presumption, that many, who ought to have depended on God’s providence, confidently settled what they were to do, and arranged their plans for a long ti...
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...
GO TO NOW, YE THAT SAY,.... The apostle passes from exposing the sin of detraction, and rash judgment, to inveigh against those of presumption and self-confidence; and the phrase, "go to now", is a no...
Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Ver. 13. _We will go into such, &c._] As if they were petty gods wi...
_Go to now_ Αγε νυν, _come now_, an interjection, calculated to excite attention; _ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will_ go, &c. As if future events were in your own power, and your health and liv...
A YEAR-THE MORROW; all our plans should be made in view of the uncertainty of human life....
GO TO NOW, YE THAT SAY, TODAY OR TOMORROW WE WILL GO INTO SUCH A CITY, AND CONTINUE THERE A YEAR, AND BUY AND SELL, AND GET GAIN,...
Trust in God's providence essential:...
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...
THE PRESUMPTUOUS USE OF TIME When we think of what some have called the sin of worldliness, we often think in terms of immodest apparel, filthy language, watching the wrong kind of television programs...
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...
GO TO NOW; either this is a note of transition, or of command to inferiors, or rather of admonition to such as are stupid or rash, and tends to the awakening their attention, and stirring them up to t...
James 4:13 Come G33 (G5720) now G3568 say G3004 (G5723) Today G4594 or G2532 tomorrow G839 go...
‘Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and make ourselves gains”, whereas you do not know what will be on the morrow.' ‘Come now.' Thi...
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...
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...
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...
James 4:13. It is a matter of dispute and considerable difficulty to whom this passage is addressed; whether James is here addressing unworthy members of the Christian Church, who had not yet laid asi...
GO TO NOW (αγε νυν). Interjectional use of αγε (from αγω) as in James 5:1 (only N.T. instances) with a plural verb (ο λεγοντες, present active articular participle, ye that say) as is common in anc...
James 4:13 What is your life? I. It is a very mysterious part of God's dealings, this making our life so uncertain. If we were not so thoroughly accustomed to the fact, we should, I think, all consid...
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...
NOW LISTEN TO ME. "You act as though everything were yours to decide, and that God had nothing to do with the events of the world!...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ James 4:13. SUCH A CITY.—“This city”; the one the speaker is supposed to have in mind. James 4:14. WHAT SHALL BE.—“What your life shall be on the morrow.” VANISHETH A...
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 Corinthians 7:30; Ecclesiastes 2:1; Ezekiel 7:12; Genesis 11:3;...
Go to now [α γ ε ν υ ν]. Go to is an obsolete phrase, though retained in Rev. It is a formula for calling attention : come now. Such a city [τ η ν δ ε τ η ν π ο λ ι ν]. More accurately, as Rev., this...
Come now, ye that say — As peremptorily as if your life were in your own hands....
For the clear understanding of these words, consider, 1. What is not here forbidden or condemned by our apostle; namely, prudential resolutions for. right management of human affairs: It is lawful for...