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James 2:5

James 2:5

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

Hearken ( ἀκούσατε). This has been noticed as a coincidence with the speech of St. James in . It is, however, too slight to be worth much (cf. ; ; ). For τοῦ κόσμου τούτου, read τῷ κόσμῳ ( א, A, B, C), "poor as to the world;" perhaps "in the estimation of the world."

These God chose (to be) rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, etc. The kingdom; mentioned hero only by St. James (and even here, א, A read ἐπαγγελίας); cf. νόμον βασιλικόν in verse 8. Which he hath promised.

As Dean Plumptre has pointed out, "it is scarcely possible to exclude a direct reference to the words of Christ, as in ; , ; and so we get indirect proof of a current knowledge, at the early period at which St.

James wrote, of teaching which was afterwards recorded in the written Gospels."

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