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 their public worship: for if one person was afflicted, and another quite easy, what might suit one, would, according to this rule of the apostle, have been unfit for the other: accordingly it is put in the singular number.
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James 5:13
13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.