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JAMES 4:14 to. th/j au;rion {B}
Of the several readings, ta. th/j au;rion, though supported by several
good witnesses (A P 33 81 1739 _al_), is suspect as a scribal
assimilation to Proverbs 27:...
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Verse 14. _WHEREAS YE KNOW NOT_] This verse should be read in a
parenthesis. It is not only impious, but grossly absurd, to speak thus
concerning futurity, when ye know not what a day may bring forth....
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WHEREAS, YE KNOW NOT WHAT SHALL BE ON THE MORROW - They formed their
plans as if they knew; the apostle says it could not be known. They
had no means of ascertaining what would occur; whether they wou...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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MAN'S PLEASURE OR GOD'S WILL? (James 4:1-3)...
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WHEREAS YE. Such as ye are.
KNOW. App-132.
LIFE. App-170.
IT IS EVEN. For it is. The texts read "For ye are".
VAPOUR. Greek. _atmis_. See Acts 2:19.
APPEARETH. App-106.
VANISHETH AWAY. See Acts...
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_Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow_ Literally, _the
thing_, or THE EVENT OF TO-MORROW, the phrase, being parallel to "the
things of the morrow" in Matthew 6:34. St James partly reproduce...
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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...
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ΤῸ ΤῊΣ ΑΥ̓́ΡΙΟΝ with אKL, several versions and
Fathers: τὰ τῆς αὔριν AP and some cursives. The reading
τῆς αὔριον only is found in B and adopted from that great
authority by Westcott and Hort.
ἘΣΤΕ w...
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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....
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_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...
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ΈΠΊΣΤΑΣΘΕ _praes. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΈΠΊΣΤΗΜΙ
(G1987) знать, понимать,
ΠΟΊΟΣ (G4169) какого рода; надежный или
хрупкий? (Ropes),
ΆΤΜΊΣ (G822) пар, дым. Это пар котелка или
дым, уносимый ветром; гр...
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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...
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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...
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Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your
life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then
vanisheth away.
WHAT, [ poia (G4169)] - 'of what nature is y...
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VERSE 14 WHEREAS YE KNOW NOT WHAT SHALL BE TOMORROW.
It is not given to us poor mortals to look into or in any wise know
the future. You as mortals can make no calculations as to the future,
and the...
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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...
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4:14 who (c-2) 'Who are such as do not.'...
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DENUNCIATION OF GREED AND LOVE OF PLEASURE
1. Lusts] better, 'pleasures.'...
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WHAT _is_ YOUR LIFE? IT IS EVEN A VAPOUR] RV 'Ye are a vapour.'...
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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...
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WHEREAS YE KNOW NOT.... — Read, _Whereas ye know not aught of the
morrow_ — what, _i.e.,_ the event may be. The hopeless misery of the
unfaithful servant comes into mind at this; he has left the great...
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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...
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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...
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οἵτινες οὐκ ἐπίστασθε τὸ τῆς
αὔριον : “Ye are they that know not …”; it is the
contrast between the ignorance of men, with the consequent incertitude
of all that the morrow may bring forth, and the kn...
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“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...
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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...
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MAN'S FUTURE DEPENDS UPON GOD
We do not know what awaits us even a few minutes ahead on life's road,
so we should not make plans as if we controlled our own future. The
wise man said, "Do not boast ab...
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(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...
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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...
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_THE SHORTNESS OF LIFE_
‘For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a
little time, and then vanisheth away.’
James 4:14
To this question we must expect many different answers. B...
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14_For what is your life? _He might have checked this foolish license
in determining things to come by many other reasons; for we see how
the Lord daily frustrates those presumptuous men who promise w...
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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...
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WHEREAS YE KNOW NOT WHAT SHALL BE ON THE MORROW,.... Whether there
would be a morrow for them or not, whether they should live till
tomorrow; and if they should, they knew not what a morrow would brin...
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Whereas ye know not what _shall be_ on the morrow. For what _is_ your
life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then
vanisheth away.
Ver. 14. _Ye know not what, &c._] God delig...
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Jam. 4:14. "Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow: for what
is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time,
and then vanisheth away." Here seems to be an allusion to that...
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_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...
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A YEAR-THE MORROW; all our plans should be made in view of the
uncertainty of human life....
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Trust in God's providence essential:...
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WHEREAS YE KNOW NOT WHAT SHALL BE ON THE MORROW. FOR WHAT IS YOUR
LIFE? IT IS EVEN A VAPOR THAT APPEARETH FOR A LITTLE TIME AND THEN
VANISHETH AWAY....
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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...
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IT IS EVEN:
Or, for it is...
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"Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are
just. vapor that appears for. little while and then vanishes away."Yet
you do not know". Proverbs 27:1 "Do not boast about tomorrow,...
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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...
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WHEREAS YE KNOW NOT WHAT SHALL BE ON THE MORROW; whether ye yourselves
shall continue till then, or what else shall then be, or not be. In
vain do ye boast of whole years, when ye cannot command the e...
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James 4:14 whereas G3748 not G3756 know G1987 (G5736) tomorrow G3588
G839 For G1063 what G4169 your...
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‘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...
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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...
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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...
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James 4:14. WHEREAS YE KNOW NOT WHAT SHALL BE ON THE MORROW. You are
ignorant of what shall happen to you; your health and lives are not at
your own disposal. Compare the similar thought in Proverbs:...
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WHEREAS YE KNOW NOT
(οιτινες ουκ επιστασθε). The longer relative
οστις defines here more precisely (like Latin _qui_) ο
λεγοντες (ye who say) of verse James 4:13 in a causal sense,
as in Acts 10:47...
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James 4:14
I. First, what is the intention of life? No man of any consideration
can look on "this life" for a moment without connecting it with "the
life that is to come." It is evident that the first...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW. "You speak confidently of the future, but you
don't even know for sure if you will even be living tomorrow!...
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JAMES—NOTE ON JAMES 4:14 YOU. These business people think they
control events. They fail to recognize God’s authority and the
temporary nature of LIFE. Planning and investing are not wrong, but
arroga...
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_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...
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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....
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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,...
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1 John 2:17; 1 Peter 1:24; 1 Peter 4:7; Isaiah 38:12; James 1:10;...
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Whereas ye know not [ο ι τ ι ν ε ς ο υ κ ε π ι σ τ α
σ θ ε]. The pronoun marking a class, as being of those who know
not.
What shall be on the morrow [τ ο τ η ς α υ ρ ι ο ν]. Lit.,
the thing of the m...