Manly Luscombe Commentary on NT
James 5:6
How have the rich condemned the poor? In what way have they murdered the poor?
How have the rich condemned the poor? In what way have they murdered the poor?
Verse 6. _YE HAVE CONDEMNED_ AND _KILLED THE JUST;_ AND _HE DOTH_ _NOT RESIST YOU__._] Several by τονδικαιον, _the just one_, understand Jesus Christ, who is so called, Acts 3:14; Acts 7:52;...
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 and cruci...
V. THE COMING OF THE LORD AND THE LIFE OF FAITH CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The oppression by the rich and their coming doom (James 5:1)_ 2. Be patient unto the coming of the Lord (James 5:7) 3. The prayers of...
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 de...
THE WORTHLESSNESS OF RICHES (James 5:1-3)...
Look you, the pay of the reapers who reaped your estates, the pay kept back from them by you, cries against you, and the cries of those who reaped have come to the ears of the Lord of Hosts. On the ea...
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....
_Ye have condemned and killed the just_ The words have been very generally understood as referring to the death of Christ, and on this view, the words "he doth not resist you" have been interpreted as...
ΚΑΤΕΔΙΚΆΣΑΤΕ, YE CONDEMNED. Another reference to the courts, κριτήρια ch. James 2:6, which were used as instruments of oppression. ὈΦΟΝΕΎΣΑΤΕ ΤῸΝ ΔΊΚΑΙΟΝ, YE SLEW THE JUST ONE. Either (_a_) some speci...
The thought of trade suggests the thought of wealth, as in Revelation 18:15 οἱ ἔμποροι τούτων πλουτήσαντες�ʼ αὐτῆς. The rich men who are here addressed are outside ‘the brotherhood.’ This appears clea...
_RETAIN THE RIGHT ATTITUDE -- JAMES 5:1-11_ Wealth is not wrong within itself. The trouble with riches is in reference to wealth held without regard for the kingdom of God. The worldly rich that are d...
ΚΑΤΕΔΙΚΆΣΑΤΕ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΚΑΤΑΔΙΚΆΩ (G2613) приговаривать кого-л., осуждать, ΈΦΟΝΕΎΣΑΤΕ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΦΟΝΕΎΩ (G5407) убивать, ΑΝΤΙΤΆΣΣΕΤΑΙ _praes. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΑΝΤΙΤΆΣΣΩ (G498)...
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 resis...
CHAPTER IX _PRETENDED DEBATE WITH A RICH UNBELIEVER_ James 4:13 to James 5:6 _Introduction:_ The title of this chapter is itself interpretive, and might introduce some discussion. There is no doubt...
THE END OF THE UNGODLY RICH _Text 5:1-6_ James 5:1. Come now ye rich and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you. 2. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth eaten. 3. Your...
Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you. YE HAVE CONDEMNED ... THE JUST. The aorist [ katedikasate (G2613)], 'Ye are wont to condemn, etc., the just.' Their condemnation o...
VERSE 6 YE HAVE CONDEMNED AND KILLED THE JUST. The Jews condemned and slew the just one, the Lord Jesus Christ, and the facts of history show that it was the rich and influential that were guilty of...
5 This passage has puzzled the commentators, and there are many and various explanations offered to solve what seems to be one of the most difficult passages in the Scriptures. A simple explanation, w...
THE JUST] RV 'righteous one,' may refer (as Acts 3:14; Acts 7:52) to our Lord, but is perhaps a general statement, although in that case the plural rather than the singular would naturally be used. 7...
REBUKE AND ENCOURAGEMENT 2. Are corrupted, etc.] prophetic tense, in which the future is spoken of as though it were already come to pass....
WHAT *FAITH SHOULD DO JAMES _IAN MACKERVOY_ The word list at the end explains words with a *star by them. CHAPTER 5 JUDGEMENT OF THE RICH 5:1-6 V1 Now, you rich people, weep and cry aloud. Th...
YE HAVE CONDEMNED AND KILLED THE JUST. — Better thus: _Ye condemned, ye slew the just_ — as in the speech of Peter (Acts 3:14), or that of Stephen (Acts 7:52). Such a reference, however, has been disa...
CHAPTER 23 THE FOLLIES AND INIQUITIES OF THE RICH; THEIR MISERABLE END. James 5:1 HERE, if anywhere in the Epistle, the writer glances aside from the believing Jews of the Dispersion, to whom the l...
κατεδικάσατε, ἐφονεύσατε τὸν δίκαιον : this expresses what must often have taken place; the prophetical books often refer to like things; there is no reason for regarding this as some specific case of...
PATIENTLY AWAIT THE LORD'S COMING James 5:1 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 those who...
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. S...
THE ABUSIVE RICH WILL BE JUDGED James had a message for the oppressive rich. He asked for their close attention, as in 4:13, by saying "Come now." This time he is speaking to the rich. His message see...
Go now rich men, &c. In the first six verses, he gives admonitions to those among the Christians who were rich, not to rely on riches, nor value themselves on this account. You must look upon your ric...
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...
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...
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 killed; fo...
The two classes in Israel are distinctly marked here in contrast with one another, with the addition of the walk which the Christian ought to pursue when chastised by the Lord. The apostle gives the c...
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 him...
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 ro...
_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 b...
HE DOTH NOT RESIST YOU; after the example of his Lord, he commits his cause to God, knowing that He will execute judgment in his behalf. Compare 1 Peter 2:23. With these words the apostle passes from...
YE HAVE CONDEMNED AND KILLED THE JUST; AND HE DOTH NOT RESIST YOU. To the remarks which the author has written concerning the rich in the first part of his letter he now adds an exhortation in which h...
VARIOUS ADMONITIONS IN VIEW OF THE NEARNESS OF THE JUDGMENT. Exhortation to the rich:...
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 them,...
"You have condemned and put to death the righteous man; he does not resist you"."You have condemned and put to death the righteous man" -To condemn is to pronounce guilty. Evidently, the various wealt...
1-6 Public troubles are most grievous to those who live in pleasure, and are secure and sensual, though all ranks suffer deeply at such times. All idolized treasures will soon perish, except as they...
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_ for...
James 5:6 condemned G2613 (G5656) murdered G5407 (G5656) just G1342 does G498 not G3756 resist G498 ...
‘You have condemned, you have killed the righteous one. He is not resisting (or ‘opposing') you.' ‘The Righteous One' is a New Testament term for Jesus. See Acts 3:14; Acts 7:52; Acts 22:14. That doe...
DIATRIBE AGAINST THE UNGODLY RICH (JAMES 5:1). 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, ‘count it al...
James 5:6. The third sin is the oppression or persecution of the righteous. Y E HAVE CONDEMNED AND KILLED THE JUST, or the just one the just man, as the word ‘just' is in the singular. These words hav...
St. James, having warned his readers against worldliness, and exhorted them to humility before God, proceeds to censure the rich for their forgetfulness of their dependence upon God, their proud confi...
YE HAVE CONDEMNED (κατεδικασατε). First aorist active indicative of καταδικαζω, old verb (from καταδικη, condemnation, Acts 25:15). The rich controlled the courts of justice.YE HAVE KILLED THE RIGH...
CONTENTS: Warning to the rich. Exhortations in view of Christ's second coming. CHARACTERS: Christ, Job, Elias, James. CONCLUSION: Great amassing of wealth will be a sign of the last days, but woe to...
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 howl_...
YOU HAVE. The "Zealots" (note on Mark 15:7) especially, killed with no feeling of guilt. The climax of their sin was the murder of the _Innocent Man,_ Christ Jesus. Compare Acts 7:52. [_Both_ Jew and...
JAMES—NOTE ON JAMES 5:1 The rich people mentioned here are probably not believers (compare James 2:6). ⇐
JAMES—NOTE ON JAMES 5:6 RIGHTEOUS PERSON may have a double meaning. He is both “one of God’s forgiven people” and “a person who is innocent” of the death sentence that the wealthy have given him. He d...
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 good ma...
EXPOSITION JAMES 5:1 DENUNCIATION OF THE RICH FOR (1) GRINDING DOWN THE POOR AND KEEPING BACK THEIR WAGES;...
Now in chapter five he takes on the rich. So this doesn't apply to many of us. Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, your garment...
1 Peter 2:22; 1 Peter 2:23; 1 Thessalonians 2:15; 1 Thessalonians 2:16;...
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 therefore...
Are riches a blessing or a curse? PROBLEM: Solomon lauded riches as a blessing from God, saying, “In the house of the righteous there is much treasure” (Proverbs 15:6; cf. Psalms 112:3). However, Jam...
By the JUST, may be understood JESUS CHRIST, that JUST ONE whom the nation of the Jews condemned and killed; and also such of his members, orthodox Christians, who the judaizing Christians persecuted....