My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
Ver. 1. The Lord of glory] Or, "Have not the glorious faith of our Lord Jesus Christ," &c. Faith is a glorious grace indeed.
With respect of persons] i.e. Of their outward quality or conditions, as rich or poor, of this side or that, &c. Zanchy relates about a certain Frenchman, a friend of his, and a constant hearer of Calvin at Geneva, that being solicited by him to hear Viret, an excellent preacher, who preached at the same time that Calvin did, he answered, If St Paul himself should preach here at the same hour with Calvin, Ego, relicto Paulo, audirem Calvinum, I would not leave Calvin to hear Paul. This is not only partiality, but anthropolatry a or man worship, saith he. Grynaeus reports a speech of George, duke of Saxony: Although I am not ignorant, saith he, that there are various errors and abuses crept into the Church, Nolo tamen amplecti Evangelium quod Lutherus annunciat, yet I will none of that gospel reformation that Luther preacheth. (Lect. in Hag.) Compertum est, it is for certain, saith Erasmus, that many things are condemned as heretical in Luther's writings, that in Austin's and Bernard's books are approved for sound and pious passages. (Erasm. Epist. ad Card. Mogunt.)
a Man worship; the giving of divine honours to a human being. ŒD