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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....
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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...
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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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MAN'S PLEASURE OR GOD'S WILL? (James 4:1-3)...
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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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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:...
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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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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...
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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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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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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...
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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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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...
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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,...
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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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DENUNCIATION OF GREED AND LOVE OF PLEASURE
1. Lusts] better, 'pleasures.'...
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SUCH A CITY] RV 'this city.' The presumption rebuked is that of the
rich (? non-Christian) Jewish merchant who travelled for purposes of
gain....
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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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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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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“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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"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....
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(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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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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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,...
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Trust in God's providence essential:...
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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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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?...
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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...
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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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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...
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James 4:13 Come G33 (G5720) now G3568 say G3004 (G5723) Today G4594 or
G2532 tomorrow G839 go...
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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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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...
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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 4:13. 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...
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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...
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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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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!...
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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 Corinthians 7:30; Ecclesiastes 2:1; Ezekiel 7:12; Genesis 11:3;...
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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...
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Come now, ye that say — As peremptorily as if your life were in your
own hands....
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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...