“ Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. ”
Your riches are corrupted - The word here rendered “corrupted” ( σήπω sēpō) does not occur elsewhere in the New Testament. It means, to cause to rot, to corrupt, to destroy. The reference h...
From the merely careless rich James turns to the actively oppressive, the fellows of those whom he lashes in James 2:6 f. For him, of course, the prophetic Day of the Lord was more assured and more...
riches . wealth. The Greek word ploutos conveys the idea of abundance. Compare Luke 12:19 . corrupted . Greek. sepo . Only here. are . have become. motheaten . Greek. setobrotos. Only he...
2 Your riches. The meaning may be twofold: — that he ridicules their foolish confidence, because the riches in which they placed their happiness, were wholly fading, yea, that they could be r...
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your riches are corrupted - Σεσηπε· Are putrefied. The term πλουτος, riches, is to be taken here, not for gold, silver, or precious stones,...
Your riches are corrupted,— By riches here are very probably meant their stores of corn, wine, oil, and other perishing goods, which they used to lay up in great abundance: see James 5:4 and...
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Corrupted - about to be destroyed through God's curse for your oppression, whereby your riches are accumulated ( James 5:4 ). Calvi...
Rebuke and Encouragement 2. Are corrupted, etc.] prophetic tense, in which the future is spoken of as though it were already come to pass.
Your riches are corrupted... — As expanded in the eloquent gloss of Bishop Wordsworth, “Your wealth is mouldering in corruption, and your garments, stored up in vain superfluity, are become moth-ea...
Chapter 23 THE FOLLIES AND INIQUITIES OF THE RICH; THEIR MISERABLE END. James 5:1-6 HERE, if anywhere in the Epistle, the writer glances aside from the believing Jews of the Dispersion, to wh...
Patiently Await the Lord's Coming James 5:1-11 There are many among the rich who are using money as a sacred trust. Not against these does the Apostle utter his terrible anathemas, but against...
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....
Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. (2) Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. (3) Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of...
Your riches are corrupted ,.... Either through disuse of them; and so the phrase is expressive of their tenaciousness, withholding that from themselves and others which is meet, and which is keeping...
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Ver. 2. Your riches are corrupted ] Being subject to vanity and violence, Matthew 6:19 . See the note there. Provide yourselves theref...
Your riches are corrupted Greek, σεσηπε, are putrefied , or are as things putrefied by being kept too long. The riches of the ancients consisted much in large stores of corn, wine, oil, and costly...
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...
Warnings to the Rich; Motives to Patience under Affliction. A. D. 61. 1 Go to now, ye rich m...
Your riches are corrupted: either by riches he means the general, and by garments, gold and silver, the particulars in which their riches consisted; and then being corrupted, is to be taken gen...
Diatribe Against The Ungodly Rich ( James 5:1-6 ). Notice the complete contrast between the rich as described here and those who are being tested and tried in the opening words of the letter, ‘cou...
RULES FOR DAILY CONDUCT CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES James 5:1 . Rich men. —Always in Scripture, the men who are proud of their riches, centred in their riches, and are nothing but rich. The...
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...
Various Admonitions in View of the Nearness of the Judgment. Exhortation to the rich:
1 Peter 1:4 ; Hosea 5:12 ; Isaiah 50:9 ; Isaiah 51:8 ; James 2:2 ; Jeremiah 17:11 ; Job 13:28 ; Luke 12:33 ; Matthew 6:19 ; Matthew 6:20 ; Psalms 39:11
The riches of the ancients consisted much in large stores of corn, and of costly apparel.