“ Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms. ”
Is any among you afflicted? - By sickness, bereavement, disappointment, persecutions, loss of health or property. The word used here refers to suffering evil of any kind, ( κακοπαθεῖ kakopath...
(8) Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms. (8) He shows the best remedy against all afflictions, that is, prayers which have their place both in sorrow and joy....
The key to this hard passage seems to lie in the climax, the example of Elijah, who in 1 Kings 17:1 ; 1 Kings 18:41 ff., is not said to have prayed for drought or for rain. His prayer is in the ph...
afflicted . Greek. kakopatheo. See 2 Timothy 2:3 and Compare James 5:10 , above. pray . App-134. merry . See Acts 27:22 . sing psalms . Greek. psallo. See Romans 15:9 .
13 Is any among you afflicted? he means that there is no time in which God does not invite us to himself. For afflictions ought to stimulate us to pray; prosperity supplies us with an occasi...
Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms. Is any among you afflicted? let him pray - The Jews taught that the meaning of the ordinance, Leviticus 13:45 , which req...
Is any among you afflicted? &c.— These two directions concerning prayer when they were afflicted, and praise when they were easy and cheerful, seem to refer to private devotion, and not to thei...
Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms. Afflicted, х kakopathei ( G2553 )] - 'evil treated:' "suffering affliction" ( James 5:10 ). Let him pray -...
Rebuke and Encouragement 2. Are corrupted, etc.] prophetic tense, in which the future is spoken of as though it were already come to pass.
We now pass on to advice of different kinds — to the heavy-laden or light-hearted, to the suffering and afflicted. Prayer is to be the refuge of one, praise the safeguard of another; the whole life i...
Chapter 26 WORSHIP THE BEST OUTLET AND REMEDY FOR EXCITEMENT-THE CONNECTION BETWEEN WORSHIP AND CONDUCT. James 5:13 THE subject of this verse was probably suggested by that of the preceding on...
Effectual Prayer James 5:12-20 In view of the judgment-seat, at which we shall have to give an account of our words, we shall do well to employ the simplest, plainest speech, Matthew 5:34 ; M...
Approaching the conclusion of his letter, the writer addressed a terrible indictment and solemn warning to the rich. He showed the failure of possessions, and how they may become the curse of life....
But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation. (13) Is a...
Is any among you afflicted ?.... As the people of God generally are; they are commonly a poor, and an afflicted people; at least there are many among them that are so, and many are their afflictions...
Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms. Ver. 13. Is any among you afflicted? ] Any one may, for grace is no target against affliction. Let him pray ] Not...
Is any among you afflicted? let him pray That he may be supported under his affliction, so as to be enabled to bear it with patience and resignation to the divine will, and find it to be sanctified...
Verses 1 Timothy 6 are addressed to rich men, and no doubt specially to those who make some claim of having the knowledge of God. They are bidden to weep and howl for the miseries that will take th...
Caution against Swearing; Profaneness Condemned; Confession and Prayer; Efficacy of Prayer. A. D. 61....
Is any among you afflicted? either troubled or afflicted in mind, as appears by the opposite being merry, or more generally afflicted any way. Not that we need not pray at other times, but when u...
Final Exhortation To Prayer And Faith ( James 5:12-18 ). Having faced up men and women to judgment in different ways James now ends as he began by putting great emphasis on the need for faith and...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES James 5:13 . Merry. —Of good cheer, gladsome at heart. Psalm. —The word suggests a composition fitted to an accompaniment of music. MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGR...
James 5:13 Religious Worship a Remedy for Excitements. St. James seems to imply in these words that there is that in religious worship which supplies all our spiritual need, which suits every moo...
James 5:1 . Go to now, or go now, ye rich men. He had taught them humility, because their glory vanished away as the flower of the field: chap. James 1:10 . He now calls upon them to weep and...
EXPOSITION James 5:1-59 DENUNCIATION OF THE RICH FOR (1) GRINDING DOWN THE POOR AND KEEPING BACK THEIR WAGES ; (2) LUXURY ; (3) MURDER . The whole...
The improper and the proper use of God's name:
1 Chronicles 16:9 ; 1 Corinthians 14:26 ; 2 Chronicles 33:12 ; 2 Chronicles 33:13 ; 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 ; Acts 16:24 ; Acts 16:25 ; Colossians 3:16 ; Colossians 3:17 ; Daniel 5:4 ; Ephes...