Wesley's Explanatory Notes
James 1:8
A doubleminded man — Who has, as it were, two souls; whose heart is not simply given up to God. Is unstable — Being without the true wisdom; perpetually disagrees both with himself and others, James 3:16.
A doubleminded man — Who has, as it were, two souls; whose heart is not simply given up to God. Is unstable — Being without the true wisdom; perpetually disagrees both with himself and others, James 3:16.
Verse 8. _A DOUBLE-MINDED MAN_] ανηρ διψυχος. The man of two souls, who has one for earth, and another for heaven; who wishes to secure both worlds; he will not give up earth, and he is loth to let h...
A DOUBLE MINDED MAN - The word here used, δίψυχος dipsuchos occurs only here and in James 4:8. It means, properly, one who has two souls; then one who is wavering or inconstant. It is applicable to a...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. TRIALS AND THE EXERCISE OF FAITH CHAPTER 1 _ 1. Trials and the power of faith (James 1:1)_ 2. The resources of faith (James 1:5) 3. The realization of faith (James 1:9...
The paragraph, like its successors, has no special link with its context: it is the writer's habit to throw out a series of aphoristic comments on topics, with as much connexion as there is between th...
If any of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask it from God, who gives generously to all men and never casts up the gift, and it will be given to him. Let him ask in faith, with no doubts in his min...
GREETINGS (James 1:1) _ 1:1 James, the slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sends greetings to the twelve tribes who are scattered throughout the world._ At the very beginning of his letter Ja...
DOUBLE MINDED. Greek. _dipsuchos._ Only here and James 4:8. There is no verb, but "double minded" and "unstable" qualify "that man". Compare Psalms 119:113. MAN. App-123. UNSTABLE. Greek. _akatastato...
_A double minded man_ The context shews that the man so described (the Greek word is not found in any earlier writer and may have been coined by St James) is not the fraudulent man but the waverer, tr...
Wisdom, and the Prayer that gains it 5. _If any of you lack wisdom_ As before, in James 1:1-2, the prominent word of the preceding clause suggests the opening of the next, the word for "lack" being th...
2–18. (_a_) TEMPTATION FROM WITHOUT, 2–4; (1) WISDOM, PRAYER, STEDFASTNESS, THE DIVINE HELPS IN TEMPTATION, 5–8; (2) A SPECIAL FORM OF TEMPTATION—OPPRESSION BY THE RICH—THE OLD TESTAMENT PROBLEM OF T...
ΔΊΨΥΧΟΣ. Not classical, and here only in N.T.; it does not occur in LXX.; possibly a word coined by St James himself. (In Psalms 119:113 the Hebr. for ‘them that are of a double mind’ is vaguely rende...
_SCRIPTURAL VIEW OF TRIALS -- JAMES 1:2-17:_ Christians must be "positive" when trials come their way. The man who properly reacts to trials must not react as a pessimist. "My brethren, count it all j...
ΆΝΉΡ (G435) мужчина, муж. Здесь в значении человек (Dibelius). ΔΊ ΨΎΧΟΣ (G1374) двоедушный, с двоящимися мыслями; то есть "душа которого разрывается между верой и миром" (Ropes; Adamson; Oscar _см._...
DISCOURSE: 2354 THE DOUBLE-MINDED MAN EXPOSED James 1:8. _A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways_. IT is a generally-acknowledged truth, that the mind constitutes the man. In human friendshi...
A DOUBLE-MINDED MAN IS UNSTABLE— "He, whose schemes are divided between God and the world, and who cannot cheerfully and resolutely commit himself, in confidence of divine support, to be led whitherso...
TRUE WISDOM IS GOD-GIVEN _Text 1:5-8_ 5. But if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. 6. But let him ask in fai...
_SERMON OUTLINES_ IS TEMPTATION A JOY? James 1:2-4 Proposition: When should a Christian not have joy in temptation, and how could a Christian find joy in temptation? I. Temptation is no joy. A....
A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. DOUBLE-MINDED, [ dipsuchos (G1374)] - double-soulled: the one soul directed toward God, the other to something else. The words in this James 1:8 are...
VERSE 8. A DOUBLE-MINDED MAN. Of the kind of a man James calls double-minded; he affirms that he is unstable, not in one thing, nor in one way, but in all his ways. It is important, therefore, to asce...
1 James is never called an apostle and does not write this epistle in that character. Rather, he puts himself in the place of a slave. Hence the epistle is not concerned with authoritative teaching so...
1:8 man, (a-5) 'Double-minded man' is an apposition, not with 'that man,' but with 'he that doubts' (ver. 6); and ver. 7 is practically a parenthesis. I do not think the sense of ver. 8 bears a direct...
THE POWER OF FAITH UNDER TEMPTATION 1. Servant] better, 'slave.' The word does not suggest any degradation, but only absolute surrender to the Master. St. James's humility prevents the mention of the...
A DOUBLE-MINDED MAN _is_ UNSTABLE] better, 'he is a double-minded man, unstable,' etc. 'Double-minded' is one of the key-words of the Epistle. It implies half-hearted allegiance—an attempt to combine...
WHAT *FAITH SHOULD DO JAMES _IAN MACKERVOY_ The word list at the end explains words with a *star by them. INTRODUCTION 1 THE WRITER James is the writer of the letter. But he does not tell us...
The eighth verse had better be joined with the seventh, and punctuated thus: — _Let not that man think he shall receive anything of the Lord:_ — _double minded, unstable in all his ways._ The reason w...
(2-27) Immediately after the salutation, and with more or less a play upon the word which we translate “greeting” (“rejoice,” James 1:1; “count it all joy,” James 1:2) there follow appeals on behalf o...
CHAPTER 6 THE RELATION OF THIS EPISTLE TO THE BOOKS OF ECCLESIASTICUS AND OF THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON-THE VALUE OF THE APOCRYPHA, AND THE MISCHIEF OF NEGLECTING IT. James 1:5 THE previous section led u...
δίψυχος : Although this word is not found in either the Septuagint or elsewhere in the N.T. (excepting in James 4:8) its occurrence is not rare otherwise; Clement of Rome, quoting what he calls ὁ προφ...
STEADFAST FAITH James 1:1 This Epistle is marked by the austere features of the Jerusalem church, which refused to be affected by that wider contact with the Gentile world, by which the life and teac...
James wrote to Christians in the midst of temptation and trial. He showed first that the issue of testing is that they "may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing." It is therefore to be looked upo...
ASK GOD FOR WISDOM Having said that patient endurance of trials will lead to spiritual maturity, James seems to anticipate his readers' thoughts. Some would probably wonder how they could approach the...
A double minded man [is] unstable in (g) all his ways. (g) In all his thoughts and his deeds....
Such a one, is as it were a _double-minded man, [2] divided betwixt God and the world, halting betwixt two, and becomes inconstant in all his ways, always rising and falling, beginning and relapsing....
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. (6) But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is...
To the reader who enters on the consideration of the epistle of James from the epistles of Paul, the change is great and sudden, and by no means least of all from the epistle to the Hebrews, which, in...
8_A double-minded man_, or, _a man of a double mind_. This sentence may be read by itself, as he speaks generally of hypocrites. It seems, however, to me to be rather the conclusion of the preceding d...
The Epistle of James is not addressed to the assembly, and does not take the ground of apostolic authority over the persons to whom it is sent. It is a practical exhortation which still recognises the...
A DOUBLE MINDED MAN,.... A man of two souls, or of a double heart, that speaks and asks with an heart, and an heart, as in Psalms 12:2 who halts between two opinions, and is at an uncertainty what to...
A double minded man _is_ unstable in all his ways. Ver. 8. _Unstable in all his ways_] As he is that stands on one leg, or as a bowl on a smooth table. Contrariwise, a believer is as a square stone s...
_A double-minded man_ Ανηρ διψυχος, _a man who has_, as it were, _two souls;_ whose heart is divided between God and the world, and is not simply given up to him, nor entirely confides in him for the...
DOUBLE - MINDED; one who halts between faith and unbelief....
A DOUBLE MINDED MAN IS UNSTABLE IN ALL HIS WAYS....
The need of humility:...
This chapter has a very close relationship to the Old Testament, for all is seen in connection with God; and Christ is not yet spoken of as the center and essence of all blessing and of all direction...
What is a double-minded person? Why are we double-minded in some situations? How is the double-minded person unstable?...
'being. double-minded man, unstable in all his ways' 'double-minded' -lit., having two souls. 'double-headed people who stagger helplessly here and there in their thinking, doubting, hesitating.' (Arn...
1-11 Christianity teaches men to be joyful under troubles: such exercises are sent from God's love; and trials in the way of duty will brighten our graces now, and our crown at last. Let us take care...
A DOUBLE MINDED MAN; either; 1. A hypocrite, who is said to have a double heart, PSALMS 12:2. Or rather; 2. He that is of a doubtful mind, wavering, and fluctuating with contrary motions, sometimes o...
1 Clement Far from us be that which is written, "Wretched are they who are of a double mind, and of a doubting heart; who say, These things we have heard even in the times of our fathers; but, behold...
James 1:8 double-minded G1374 man G435 unstable G182 in G1722 all G3956 his G846 ways G3598...
‘A doubleminded man, unstable in all his ways.' For the man who is looking both ways at once will be prone to accidents. He will not know whether to do this or that. He will be ‘unstable (disordered)...
IN THE FACE OF TEMPTATION AND TESTING CHRISTIANS ARE TO SEEK WISDOM FROM GOD WITHOUT DOUBTING, FOR THEN THEY WILL KNOW THAT THEY WILL RECEIVE IT AND THUS BE ABLE TO OVERCOME IN HIS STRENGTH AND WISDOM...
THOSE WHO FACE TRIAL FOR THE SAKE OF THEIR FAITH IN GOD AND THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WILL BE BLESSED (JAMES 1:2). The letter commences by outlining the basic themes that will be dealt with later (see Ana...
James 1:8. In this verse it is to be observed that the word ‘is' is in italics, and therefore is not in the original. The verse ought to be translated: ‘He,' that is, the doubter, ‘is a double-minded...
MAN (ανηρ). Instead of ανθρωπος (general term) in verse James 1:7, perhaps for variety (Ropes), but often in James (James 1:12; James 1:23; James 2:2;...
James 1:1. _James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting._ James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. He was an apostle,...
James 1:1. _James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting._ According to the teaching of some in the present day, the apostle should...
James 1:1. _James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting._ The apostle James evidently believed in no lost ten tribes, as some nowad...
James 1:1. _James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting._ «Where are the lost ten tribes?» asks somebody. They never were lost. Tha...
CONTENTS: Testing of faith. Solicitation to evil not of God. Obedience as a test of true faith. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, James. CONCLUSION: Such as have a true title in Jesus Christ through faith may...
James 1:1. _James, a servant of God, and of the Lord Jesus Christ._ He does not style himself an _apostle,_ because he would not assume any superiority; yet the majesty of his address is the language...
SUCH A PERSON IS A HYPOCRITE. He is unreliable, and has no _standard plan_ of conduct or goal. Because he doesn't really know what he wants, he can never get anything! THAT HE WILL RECEIVE ANYTHING. _...
JAMES—NOTE ON JAMES 1:7 A person who doubts is a DOUBLE-MINDED MAN. He has “two minds,” torn between God and the world (compare v. James 1:6)....
JAMES 1:2 The Testing of Faith. Trials are part of God’s “good gifts” (v. James 1:17) to his people, to strengthen them in their faith....
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ James 1:5. WISDOM.—Here, the wisdom of the book of Proverbs; practical skill in the ordering and management of life (Proverbs 19:20). LIBERALLY.—With single heart, fran...
EXPOSITION JAMES 1:1 SALUTATION. JAMES, A SERVANT OF GOD AND OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. (On the person who thus describes himself, see the Introduction) It is noteworthy that he keeps entirely out of...
Let's turn to James chapter one. James introduces himself as the bondslave of God and of Jesus Christ. It's a title that most of the apostles delighted to take. Renouncing any claim for any rights, tu...
1 Kings 18:21; 2 Kings 17:33; 2 Kings 17:41; 2 Peter 2:14; 2 Peter
A double - minded man is unstable, etc. The A. V. puts this as an independent apophthegm, which is wrong. The sentence is a comment and enlargement upon that man. "Let not that man think," etc., "a do...
By. DOUBLE-MINDED MAN, we are to understand one that is divided in his own thoughts between two different ways and opinions, as if he had two minds, or two souls. Many such there were in the apostles'...