“ Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you. ”
Ye have condemned and killed the just - τὸν δίκαιον ton dikaion - “the just one,” or “the just man” - for the word used is in the singular number. This may either refer to the condemnation...
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...
just . App-191. Compare Matthew 12:7 ; Matthew 27:19 ; Acts 3:14 . not . App-105. This is the Figure of speech Asyndeton. App-6. The two ands should be omitted.
6 Ye have condemned. Here follows another kind of inhumanity, that the rich by their power oppressed and destroyed the poor and weak. He says by a metaphor that the just were condemned and ki...
Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you. Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you - Several by τον δικαιον, the just one, understand Jesus Chris...
Ye have condemned and killed the Just;— By τον Δικαιον, the Just, some understand our Lord Jesus Christ, who is so termed, Acts 3:14 and in other places. Him the Jews murdered, and he did not...
Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you. Ye have condemned ... the just. The aorist х katedikasate ( G2613 )], 'Ye are wont to condemn, etc., the just.' Their co...
Rebuke and Encouragement 2. Are corrupted, etc.] prophetic tense, in which the future is spoken of as though it were already come to pass.
Ye have condemned and killed the just. — Better thus: Ye condemned, ye slew the just — as in the speech of Peter ( Acts 3:14-15 ), or that of Stephen ( Acts 7:52 ). Such a reference, however, has...
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...
Ye have condemned and killed the just ,.... Meaning not Christ, the Just One, as some have thought; whom the Jewish sanhedrim condemned as guilty of death, and got the sentence passed upon him, and...
Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you. Ver. 6. Ye have condemned and killed ] Take it either properly, or metaphorically of usurers and extortioners, that not only...
Ye have lived in pleasure, and have been wanton Ετρυφησατε και εσπαταλησατε. The former word signifies, ye have lived luxuriously; or, as the Vulgate has it, Epulati estis, ye have feasted; it...
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...
Ye have condemned and killed; i.e. procured by your wealth and power the passing unrighteous sentences, and thereby the destruction of the just. The just; indefinitely and collectively, the just...
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 2:22 ; 1 Peter 2:23 ; 1 Thessalonians 2:15 ; 1 Thessalonians 2:16 ; Acts 13:27 ; Acts 13:28 ; Acts 2:22 ; Acts 2:23 ; Acts 22:14 ; Acts 3:14 ; Acts 3:15 ; Acts 4:10-12 ; Acts 7:5...
Ye have killed the just — Many just men; in particular, "that Just One," Acts 3:14 . They afterwards killed James, surnamed the Just, the writer of this epistle. He doth not resist you — And there...