Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
James 1:7
Once more the Apostle warns the doubtful, holding out no hope of help until the wavering mind be fixed on God.
Once more the Apostle warns the doubtful, holding out no hope of help until the wavering mind be fixed on God.
Verse 7. _LET NOT THAT MAN THINK_] The man whose mind is divided, who is not properly persuaded either of his own wants or God's sufficiency. Such persons may pray, but having no faith, they can get n...
FOR LET NOT THAT MAN THINK THAT HE SHALL RECEIVE ANYTHING OF THE LORD - Compare Hebrews 11:6. A man can hope for favor from God only as he puts confidence in him. He sees the heart; and if he sees tha...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. TRIALS AND THE EXERCISE OF FAITH CHAPTER 1 _ 1. Trials and the power of faith (James 1:1)_ 2. The resources of faith (James 1:5) 3. The realization of faith (James 1:9...
The paragraph, like its successors, has no special link with its context: it is the writer's habit to throw out a series of aphoristic comments on topics, with as much connexion as there is between th...
GREETINGS (James 1:1) _ 1:1 James, the slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sends greetings to the twelve tribes who are scattered throughout the world._ At the very beginning of his letter Ja...
If any of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask it from God, who gives generously to all men and never casts up the gift, and it will be given to him. Let him ask in faith, with no doubts in his min...
MAN. App-123. THINK. Only here and Philippians 1:1; Philippians 1:16. See John 21:25. ANY THING. Neut. of _tis_. App-123. LORD. App-98....
_let not that man think_ Faith, undoubting faith, is then the condition of the prayer for wisdom, as of all other prayers, being heard and answered. Without it, the _No_excludes the _Yes_, which yet t...
Wisdom, and the Prayer that gains it 5. _If any of you lack wisdom_ As before, in James 1:1-2, the prominent word of the preceding clause suggests the opening of the next, the word for "lack" being th...
ΓΆΡ. See Winer, LIII. 3. The ἄρα in γάρ draws the inference, the γε corroborates it. ‘Let not then that man,’ &c....
2–18. (_a_) TEMPTATION FROM WITHOUT, 2–4; (1) WISDOM, PRAYER, STEDFASTNESS, THE DIVINE HELPS IN TEMPTATION, 5–8; (2) A SPECIAL FORM OF TEMPTATION—OPPRESSION BY THE RICH—THE OLD TESTAMENT PROBLEM OF T...
_SCRIPTURAL VIEW OF TRIALS -- JAMES 1:2-17:_ Christians must be "positive" when trials come their way. The man who properly reacts to trials must not react as a pessimist. "My brethren, count it all j...
ΟΊΈΣΘΩ _praes. imper. med. (dep.) 3 sing. от_ Ο'ΊΟΜΑΙ (G3633) полагать. Это слово часто используется в отр. значении, обозначая неверное суждение или представление (Ropes), ΛΉΜΨΕΤΑΙ _fut. ind. med. ...
_SERMON OUTLINES_ IS TEMPTATION A JOY? James 1:2-4 Proposition: When should a Christian not have joy in temptation, and how could a Christian find joy in temptation? I. Temptation is no joy. A....
TRUE WISDOM IS GOD-GIVEN _Text 1:5-8_ 5. But if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. 6. But let him ask in fai...
For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. FOR - Resumed from James 1:6. THAT MAN - such a wavering self-deceiver. THINK. Real faith is something more than a mere...
VERSE 7. FOR LET NOT THAT MAN THINK. This is sufficiently set forth in the exposition of verse 6. The wavering man, that is, the man who asks for wisdom doubting God's willingness to grant his reques...
1 James is never called an apostle and does not write this epistle in that character. Rather, he puts himself in the place of a slave. Hence the epistle is not concerned with authoritative teaching so...
THE POWER OF FAITH UNDER TEMPTATION 1. Servant] better, 'slave.' The word does not suggest any degradation, but only absolute surrender to the Master. St. James's humility prevents the mention of the...
WHAT *FAITH SHOULD DO JAMES _IAN MACKERVOY_ The word list at the end explains words with a *star by them. INTRODUCTION 1 THE WRITER James is the writer of the letter. But he does not tell us...
CHAPTER 6 THE RELATION OF THIS EPISTLE TO THE BOOKS OF ECCLESIASTICUS AND OF THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON-THE VALUE OF THE APOCRYPHA, AND THE MISCHIEF OF NEGLECTING IT. James 1:5 THE previous section led u...
μὴ γὰρ οἰέσθω, etc.: γὰρ almost in the sense of διὰ τοῦτο. The verb occurs very rarely, see John 21:25; Philippians 1:17. There is a ring of contempt in the passage at the idea of a man with halting f...
STEADFAST FAITH James 1:1 This Epistle is marked by the austere features of the Jerusalem church, which refused to be affected by that wider contact with the Gentile world, by which the life and teac...
James wrote to Christians in the midst of temptation and trial. He showed first that the issue of testing is that they "may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing." It is therefore to be looked upo...
ASK GOD FOR WISDOM Having said that patient endurance of trials will lead to spiritual maturity, James seems to anticipate his readers' thoughts. Some would probably wonder how they could approach the...
_Let not that man think that he shall receive. He that has not a lively faith and firm hope, wavering with a distrust of God's power or goodness, must not imagine to receive what he so faintly asks. ...
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. (6) But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth 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...
The Epistle of James is not addressed to the assembly, and does not take the ground of apostolic authority over the persons to whom it is sent. It is a practical exhortation which still recognises the...
FOR LET NOT THAT MAN THINK,.... Imagine, conclude, or please himself with such thoughts, THAT HE SHALL RECEIVE ANYTHING FROM THE LORD; wisdom, or anything else, he is seeking after; for wanting faith...
For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. Ver. 7. _That he shall receive_] Unless he strive against his doubting, and wade out of it, as the moon doth out of the cloud....
_If any of you_ In whole or in part; _lack wisdom_ To understand whence and why temptations come, and how they are to be improved, or for any other purpose. Wisdom, in the common acceptation of the wo...
Temptation and prayer:...
FOR LET NOT THAT MAN THINK THAT HE SHALL RECEIVE ANYTHING OF THE LORD. Without any introduction or preliminary discussion, the apostle immediately plunges into his admonitions, taking up the question...
This chapter has a very close relationship to the Old Testament, for all is seen in connection with God; and Christ is not yet spoken of as the center and essence of all blessing and of all direction...
'For let not that man expect that he will receive anything from the Lord', 'let not that man expect' -Don't even entertain the thought that God will answer any of your prayers if this is your spiritua...
1-11 Christianity teaches men to be joyful under troubles: such exercises are sent from God's love; and trials in the way of duty will brighten our graces now, and our crown at last. Let us take care...
FOR LET NOT THAT MAN; he that wavers, in opposition to him that asks in faith: all doubting doth not hinder the hearing of prayer, but that which excludes faith, MARK 9:23,24. THINK; vainly conceit, o...
James 1:7 For G1063 let G3633 not G3361 that G1565 man G444 suppose G3633 (G5737) that G3754 receive...
‘For let not that man think that he will receive anything of the Lord.' And this constancy of heart and mind is required for any who would receive God's wisdom, and indeed anything from God. The one w...
IN THE FACE OF TEMPTATION AND TESTING CHRISTIANS ARE TO SEEK WISDOM FROM GOD WITHOUT DOUBTING, FOR THEN THEY WILL KNOW THAT THEY WILL RECEIVE IT AND THUS BE ABLE TO OVERCOME IN HIS STRENGTH AND WISDOM...
THOSE WHO FACE TRIAL FOR THE SAKE OF THEIR FAITH IN GOD AND THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WILL BE BLESSED (JAMES 1:2). The letter commences by outlining the basic themes that will be dealt with later (see Ana...
James 1:7. FOR LET NOT THAT MAN, namely, the doubter, THINK. This warning supposes that the doubter fancies that he will receive an answer to his prayers; but it is a vain delusion: his expectations w...
THAT MAN (ο ανθρωπος εκεινος). Emphatic use of εκεινος.OF THE LORD (παρα του κυριου). Ablative case with παρα like θεου in verse James 1:5....
James 1:1. _James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting._ James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. He was an apostle,...
James 1:1. _James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting._ «Where are the lost ten tribes?» asks somebody. They never were lost. Tha...
James 1:1. _James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting._ The apostle James evidently believed in no lost ten tribes, as some nowad...
James 1:1. _James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting._ According to the teaching of some in the present day, the apostle should...
CONTENTS: Testing of faith. Solicitation to evil not of God. Obedience as a test of true faith. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, James. CONCLUSION: Such as have a true title in Jesus Christ through faith may...
James 1:1. _James, a servant of God, and of the Lord Jesus Christ._ He does not style himself an _apostle,_ because he would not assume any superiority; yet the majesty of his address is the language...
SUCH A PERSON IS A HYPOCRITE. He is unreliable, and has no _standard plan_ of conduct or goal. Because he doesn't really know what he wants, he can never get anything! THAT HE WILL RECEIVE ANYTHING. _...
JAMES—NOTE ON JAMES 1:7 A person who doubts is a DOUBLE-MINDED MAN. He has “two minds,” torn between God and the world (compare v. James 1:6)....
JAMES 1:2 The Testing of Faith. Trials are part of God’s “good gifts” (v. James 1:17) to his people, to strengthen them in their faith....
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ James 1:5. WISDOM.—Here, the wisdom of the book of Proverbs; practical skill in the ordering and management of life (Proverbs 19:20). LIBERALLY.—With single heart, fran...
EXPOSITION JAMES 1:1 SALUTATION. JAMES, A SERVANT OF GOD AND OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. (On the person who thus describes himself, see the Introduction) It is noteworthy that he keeps entirely out of...
Let's turn to James chapter one. James introduces himself as the bondslave of God and of Jesus Christ. It's a title that most of the apostles delighted to take. Renouncing any claim for any rights, tu...
Isaiah 1:15; Isaiah 58:3; Isaiah 58:4; James 4:3; Proverbs 15:8;...
That man [ε κ ε ι ν ο ς]. Emphatic, and with a slightly contemptuous force. Anything. i e. which he asks for....