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CHAPTER IV.
_The origin of wars and contentions, and the wretched lot of_
_those who are engaged in them_, 1, 2.
_Why so little heavenly good is obtained_, 3.
_The friendship of the world is enmit...
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FROM WHENCE COME WARS AND FIGHTINGS AMONG YOU? - Margin,
“brawlings.” The reference is to strifes and contentions of all
kinds; and the question, then, as it is now, was an important one,
what was the...
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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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The climax of the last paragraph leads to a diagnosis of the disease
that poisoned quarrelsome Jewish communities. Faction fights were the
logical outcome of unbridled passions; they campaign against...
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MAN'S PLEASURE OR GOD'S WILL? (James 4:1-3)...
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Whence come feuds and whence come fights among you? Is this not their
source--do they not arise because of these desires for pleasures which
carry on their constant warring campaign within your member...
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WARS. Greek. _polemos._ See Matthew 24:6.
AND. The texts add "whence".
FIGHTINGS. Greek. _mache._ See 2 Corinthians 7:5.
AMONG. App-104.
LUSTS. pleasures. Greek. _hedone_. See...
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James 4:1-7. God's giving and the World's getting
1. _whence come wars and fightings among you?_ One source of discord
had been touched in the "Be not many masters" of Chap. James 3:1.
Sectarianism an...
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ΠΌΘΕΝ ΠΌΛΕΜΟΙ ΚΑῚ ΠΌΘΕΝ ΜΆΧΑΙ ἘΝ
ὙΜΙ͂Ν; The transition to this paragraph is immediately suggested
by εἰρήνην (James 3:18). But the thought follows naturally on
the whole preceding section, especially...
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CH.
4:1–12. THE STRUGGLE AGAINST THE DESIRES OF THE FLESH WHICH ARE THE
CAUSE OF EVIL CONTENTION...
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_DO NOT BE FILLED WITH PRIDE -- JAMES 4:1-5 :_ Here James deals with
the source or origin of altercations among brethren. He listed as
causes of these wars and fightings: (1) a lust after worldly thin...
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ΠΌΘΕΝ (G4159) где, откуда,
ΠΌΛΕΜΟΣ (G4171) война,
ΜΆΧΑΙ _пот. pl. от_ ΜΆΧΗ (G3163) битва,
сражение. Первое слово обозначает
хроническое состояние военных
действий, военную кампанию, а второе —
отдел...
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WHENCE COME WARS AND FIGHTINGS AMONG YOU?— Dr. Benson is of opinion,
that St. James could here intend no reference to the unbelieving Jews
at this time in theirdispersions; but that what he condemned...
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SELFISH PLEASURE A SOURCE OF TROUBLE
_Text 4:1-3_
James 4:1
Whence come wars, and whence come fightings among you? come they not
hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?
James 4:12....
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CHAPTER VIII
_CAUSE AND REMEDY OF STRIFE_
James 4:1-12
_Introduction_
Can it be possible that the church of Jesus Christ could descend to
the sins mentioned here so soon after Pentecost? In less th...
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From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence,
even of your lusts that war in your members?
WHENCE. The cause of quarrels is often sought in external
circumstances: internal l...
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VERSE 1 FROM WHENCE COME WARS?
The question is unambiguous. It is especially pointed, and just as
bold as it is plain. Without waiting for either believing or
unbelieving Jew to respond, the writer o...
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20 The case of Abraham is most helpful in further defining the
distinct viewpoints of Paul and James. The former refers us to the
fifteenth chapter of Genesis, the latter to the twenty-second. In the...
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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 ....
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DENUNCIATION OF GREED AND LOVE OF PLEASURE
1. Lusts] better, 'pleasures.'...
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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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FROM WHENCE COME WARS...? — More correctly thus. _Whence are wars,
and whence fightings among you_? The perfect peace above, capable,
moreover, in some ways, of commencement here below, dwelt upon at...
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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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ff. These verses reveal an appalling state of moral depravity in these
_Diaspora_ congregations; strife, self-indulgence, lust, murder,
covetousness, adultery, envy, pride and slander are rife; the
co...
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“DRAW NIGH TO GOD”
James 4:1
The Apostle returns to “the jealousy and faction” of the previous
chapter, James 3:14, and says that these evils are traceable to
_lust_, that is, to inordinate desire. T...
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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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From (1) whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not
hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members?
(1) He advances the same argument, condemning certain other causes of
wars a...
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_Whence are wars [1] and contentions, in all kinds, but from your
lusts and disorderly passions, coveting to have and enjoy what you
have not, as to pleasures, riches, honours, &c. (Witham)_
[BIBLIOG...
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From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence,
even of your lusts that war in your members? (2) Ye lust, and have
not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and...
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CONTENTS
The same Subject of Exhortation is continued in this Chapter as in the
former. Several striking Expressions are made use of, to enforce what
the Apostle is recommending,...
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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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1_From whence come wars_. As he had spoken of peace, and had reminded
them that vices are to be exterminated in such a way as to preserve
peace, he now comes to their contentions, by which they create...
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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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FROM WHENCE COME WARS AND FIGHTINGS AMONG YOU?.... Which are to be
understood, not of public and national wars, such as might be between
the Jews and other nations at this time; for the apostle is not...
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From whence _come_ wars and fightings among you? _come they_ not
hence, _even_ of your lusts that war in your members?
Ver. 1. _From whence come wars_] That is, word wars, needless and
endless strife...
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The crimes condemned in this and the following chapter were so
atrocious, and of so public a nature, that we can hardly suppose them
to have been committed by any who bore the name of _Christians._
Wh...
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CAUTION AGAINST WORLDLY-MINDEDNESS AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.
Against a lustful, quarrelsome disposition:...
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FROM WHENCE COME WARS AND FIGHTINGS AMONG YOU? COME THEY NOT HENCE,
EVEN OF YOUR LUSTS THAT WAR IN YOUR MEMBERS?...
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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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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS ON CHAPTER FOUR
(The question numbers refer to the verse number.)
1. Why do nations fight wars?
Does this passage refer to personal “wars” and fighting? Could
this verse refer...
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FIGHTINGS:
Or, brawling
LUSTS:
Or, pleasures...
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"What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the
source your pleasures that wage war in your members?"What is the
source" -"from what source, brought about or given by whom, born of...
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1-10 Since all wars and fightings come from the corruptions of our
own hearts, it is right to mortify those lusts that war in the
members. Wordly and fleshly lusts are distempers, which will not allo...
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JAMES CHAPTER 4 JAMES 4:1 Our evil lusts and passions tend to breed
quarrels among ourselves, and to set us at enmity with God. JAMES 4:7
The way to overcome them, and recover God's favour. JAMES 4:11...
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James 4:1 Where G4159 wars G4171 and G2532 fights G3163 among G1722
you G5213 G1782 not G3756 from...
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IN CONTRAST TO THOSE WHO HAVE RECEIVED THE WISDOM THAT IS FROM ABOVE
ARE THOSE WHO YIELD TO THE DESIRES OF THE FLESH AND SEEK TO BE FRIENDS
OF A WORLD WHICH IGNORES CHRIST (JAMES 4:1).
Having spoken o...
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‘From where come wars and from where come squabblings among you? Do
they not come from there, even from your pleasures that war in your
members?'
He considers their wars and their squabbling and their...
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James 4:1-12. St. James warns his readers against those evil passions
which gave rise to wars and fightings among them. They must moderate
their desires, and guard against self-gratification. If they...
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James 4:1. FROM WHENCE COME WARS AND FIGHTINGS AMONG YOU? Other
manuscripts read, Whence wars and whence fightings among you? The
connection is as follows: St. James had been reproving his readers for...
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WHENCE
(ποθεν). This old interrogative adverb (here twice) asks for the
origin of wars and fights. James is full of interrogatives, like all
diatribes.WARS
(πολεμο)--FIGHTINGS
(μαχα).WAR
(πολε...
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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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WHERE DO? "What is the source of all the fights and quarrels which
take place both among you Christians and against the non-Christians?"
THEY COME FROM. The crimes which James condemns were so horribl...
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_From whence come wars and fightings?_
WARS AND FIGHTING--WHENCE THEY PROCEED
I. THE QUESTION PROPOSED (James 4:1). We have no very particular
information as to the nature of these contests, the part...
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JAMES—NOTE ON JAMES 4:1 PASSIONS. Self-centered desires cause these
people to make WAR against each other in the church. Here “war” is
a metaphor for the traumatic effect of bitter hostility....
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THE LOWER AND THE HIGHER LIFE
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_
James 4:1. LUSTS.—Pleasures, but viewed on their evil side.
_Desires_ that are ill regulated. Compare 1 Peter 2:11; Romans 7:23.
Evidentl...
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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 2:15; 1 Peter 1:14; 1 Peter 2:11; 1 Peter 4:2; 1 Peter 4:3;...
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Lusts [η δ ο ν ω ν]. Lit., pleasures, as Rev. Properly, sensual
pleasures. The sinful pleasures are the outgrowths of the lusts, ver.
2.
That war [σ τ ρ α τ ε υ ο μ ε ν ω ν]. The thought of wars
and f...
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From whence come wars and fightings — Quarrels and wars among you,
quite opposite to this peace? Is it not from your pleasures — Your
desires of earthly pleasures. Which war — Against your souls. In
y...
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The Jews, to whom St. James directed this epistle, had at that time
great wars and fightings, not only with their neighbours, but even
among themselves: in every city there were WARS AND FIGHTINGS AMO...