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JAMES 4:4 moicali,dej {A}
In scriptural imagery, moicali,j (“adulteress”) is used
figuratively of Israel as the unfaithful spouse of Jehovah (cf. Psalms
73:27;...
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Verse James 4:4. _YE ADULTERERS AND ADULTERESSES_] The Jews, because
of their _covenant_ with God, are represented as being _espoused_ to
him; and hence their idolatry, and their iniquity in general,...
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YE ADULTERERS AND ADULTERESSES - These words are frequently used to
denote those who are faithless towards God, and are frequently applied
to those who forsake God for idols, Hosea 3:1; Isaiah 57:3, I...
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IV. FURTHER EXHORTATIONS TO RIGHT LIVING
CHAPTER 4
_ 1. Fightings and worldliness rebuked (James 4:1)_
2. The Godly walk (James 4:7)
James 4:1
A strong rebuke follows the statements concerning the...
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The climax of the last paragraph leads to a diagnosis of the disease
that poisoned quarrelsome Jewish communities. Faction fights were the
logical outcome of unbridled passions; they campaign against...
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Renegades to your vows, do you not know that love for this world is
enmity to God? Whoever makes it his aim to be the friend of this world
thereby becomes the enemy of God. Do you think that the sayin...
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MAN'S PLEASURE OR GOD'S WILL? (James 4:1-3)...
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YE ADULTERERS AND. The texts omit.
ADULTERESSES. Compare Matthew 12:39; Jeremiah 3:9; Ezekiel 16; Ezekiel
23.
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_Ye adulterers and adulteresses_ The better MSS. give YE ADULTERESSES
only. The use of the feminine alone in this connexion, where the
persons referred to are primarily men, is at first startling. It...
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CH.
4:1–12. THE STRUGGLE AGAINST THE DESIRES OF THE FLESH WHICH ARE THE
CAUSE OF EVIL CONTENTION...
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The omission of μοιχοὶ καί is supported by א* AB and some
important versions. Old Latin _fornicatores_, Vulgate _adulteri._ The
words are included in אcKLP and later authorities.
4. ΜΟΙΧΑΛΊΔΕΣ, for th...
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_DO NOT BE FILLED WITH PRIDE -- JAMES 4:1-5 :_ Here James deals with
the source or origin of altercations among brethren. He listed as
causes of these wars and fightings: (1) a lust after worldly thin...
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DISCOURSE: 2370
FRIENDSHIP OF THE WORLD IS ENMITY WITH GOD
James 4:4. _Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the
friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will
be a f...
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YE ADULTERERS AND ADULTERESSES,— Great wickedness, and especially
_idolatry,_ among the Jews, is often represented as _adultery._ What
follows in this verse shews, that by adultery St. James meant
_sp...
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CHAPTER VIII
_CAUSE AND REMEDY OF STRIFE_
James 4:1-12
_Introduction_
Can it be possible that the church of Jesus Christ could descend to
the sins mentioned here so soon after Pentecost? In less th...
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DEDICATION TO GOD ALONE IS THE ONLY ANSWER
_Text 4:4-8a_
James 4:4.
Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is
enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the wo...
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Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of
the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of
the world is the enemy of God.
'Aleph (') A B omit "adultere...
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VERSE 4 YE ADULTERERS AND ADULTERESSES.
The word "adulteresses" does not occur in the Syriac, neither does it
appear in the Latin Vulgate. Singular to say, the word "adulterers"
does not appear in Rot...
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20 The case of Abraham is most helpful in further defining the
distinct viewpoints of Paul and James. The former refers us to the
fifteenth chapter of Genesis, the latter to the twenty-second. In the...
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4:4 God? (h-13) Lit. 'the friendship of the world is enmity of God;'
but it is the state as between the parties, in English 'with.' In what
follows, the same construction in Greek, it is taken up as '...
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ADULTERERS AND ADULTERESSES] RV 'adulteresses' (without 'adulterers
and'), meaning, of course, those who have forsaken God. The thought is
very common in the OT. (Isaiah 57:3; Jeremiah 3:20; Ezekiel 1...
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DENUNCIATION OF GREED AND LOVE OF PLEASURE
1. Lusts] better, 'pleasures.'...
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WHAT *FAITH SHOULD DO
JAMES
_IAN MACKERVOY_
The word list at the end explains words with a *star by them.
CHAPTER 4
DESIRES AND DIVISIONS 4:1-10
V1 You know where all the fights and quarrels...
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YE ADULTERERS AND ADULTERESSES. — The phrase may seem to flow
naturally after the former ones, but the Received text, from which our
version was made, is wrong. It should be, _ye adulteresses_! as
acc...
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CHAPTER 19
THE SEDUCTIONS OF THE WORLD AND THE JEALOUSY OF THE DIVINE LOVE.
James 4:4
THE Revisers are certainly right in rejecting, without even mention in
the margin, the reading, "Ye adulterers a...
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CHAPTER 18
ST. JAMES AND PLATO ON LUSTS AS THE CAUSES OF STRIFE; THEIR EFFECT ON
PRAYER.
James 4:1
THE change from the close of the third chapter to the beginning of the
fourth is startling. St. Jam...
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μοιχαλίδες : the weight of evidence is strongly in favour of
this reading as against μοιχοὶ καὶ μοιχαλίδες.
The depraved state of morals to which the whole section bears witness
must in part at least...
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“DRAW NIGH TO GOD”
James 4:1
The Apostle returns to “the jealousy and faction” of the previous
chapter, James 3:14, and says that these evils are traceable to
_lust_, that is, to inordinate desire. T...
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The writer now dealt with the effect of faith on character. Everything
depends on desire. To attempt to satisfy a natural desire without
reference to God is futile, and issues in internal conflict and...
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SEEKING TO PLEASE SELF"Lust" is a strong desire for a thing.
Certainly, it has caused others to do wicked things. David committed
adultery with Bathsheba and had her husband, Uriah, killed to satisfy...
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(3) Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of
the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of
the world is the enemy of God.
(3) Another reason why such...
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_Adulterers: which is here taken in a figurative sense for those who
love creatures more than God, the true spouse of their souls; who
reflect not that the love and friendship of this world is an enem...
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From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence,
even of your lusts that war in your members? (2) Ye lust, and have
not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and...
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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...
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4_Ye adulterers_. I connect this verse with the foregoing verses: for
he calls them _adulterers_, as I think, metaphorically; for they
corrupted themselves with the vanities of this world, and alienat...
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In all that follows we have still the judgment of unbridled nature, of
will in its different forms: contentions that arise from the lusts of
the natural heart; request made to God proceeding from the...
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YE ADULTERERS AND ADULTERESSES,.... Not who were literally such, but
in a figurative and metaphorical sense: as he is an adulterer that
removes his affections from his own wife, and sets them upon ano...
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Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the
world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the
world is the enemy of God.
Ver. 4. _Ye adulterers and adul...
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_Ye adulterers and adulteresses_ Who have broken your faith with God,
your rightful spouse. Thus many understand these expressions, because
God himself represented his relation to the Jews as his peop...
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YE ADULTERERS AND ADULTERESSES; the sin of adultery stands here as the
embodiment of all the fleshly lusts in which these unworthy professors
of Christianity indulged. The same sin is charged by the a...
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YE ADULTERERS AND ADULTERESSES, KNOW YE NOT THAT THE FRIENDSHIP OF THE
WORLD IS ENMITY WITH GOD? WHOSOEVER, THEREFORE, WILL BE A FRIEND OF
THE WORLD IS THE ENEMY OF GOD....
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CAUTION AGAINST WORLDLY-MINDEDNESS AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.
Against a lustful, quarrelsome disposition:...
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This chapter, to the end of v.6, continues the subject begun in
Ch.3:13. Sensual. devilish wisdom was accompanied by wars and
fightings: but this proceeded from the lusts of the flesh active
within th...
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Who are the adulterers and adulteresses in this verse? Are these words
literal or use in a figurative sense? In what ways are we friends with
the world? What should be the relationship of the Christia...
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"You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is
hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be. friend of the
world makes himself an enemy of God."You adulteresses" -"Unfait...
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1-10 Since all wars and fightings come from the corruptions of our
own hearts, it is right to mortify those lusts that war in the
members. Wordly and fleshly lusts are distempers, which will not allo...
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YE ADULTERERS AND ADULTERESSES; he means adulterers and adulteresses
in a spiritual sense, i.e. worldly-minded Christians, who being, by
profession, married to the Lord, yet gave up those affections t...
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James 4:4 Adulterers G3432 and G2532 adulteresses G3428 not G3756 know
G1492 (G5758) that G3754 friendship G5373 world...
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‘You adulteresses. Do you not know that the friendship of the world
is enmity with God? Whoever therefore would be a friend of the world
makes himself an enemy of God.'
Thus they are also like adulter...
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IN CONTRAST TO THOSE WHO HAVE RECEIVED THE WISDOM THAT IS FROM ABOVE
ARE THOSE WHO YIELD TO THE DESIRES OF THE FLESH AND SEEK TO BE FRIENDS
OF A WORLD WHICH IGNORES CHRIST (JAMES 4:1).
Having spoken o...
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James 4:4. YE ADULTERERS AND ADULTERESSES. The best manuscripts read
only ‘ye adulteresses,' a reading more suitable to the metaphor
employed. This appellation might be taken literally, it we referred...
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James 4:1-12. St. James warns his readers against those evil passions
which gave rise to wars and fightings among them. They must moderate
their desires, and guard against self-gratification. If they...
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YE ADULTERESSES
(μοιχαλιδες). Μοιχο κα (ye adulterers) is spurious
(Syrian text only). The feminine form here is a common late word from
the masculine μοιχο. It is not clear whether the word is to b...
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WORLD
Greek, "kosmos" means "world-system". (2 Peter 1:4); (John 7:7).
(_ See Scofield) - (Revelation 13:8). _...
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James 4:1. _From whence come wars and fightings among you?_
Whether between nations, or parties or individuals,-if there be wars
and fightings, whence do they come?
James 4:1. _Come they not hence,...
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CONTENTS: Rebuke of worldliness and exhortation to humility before
God.
CHARACTERS: God, Satan.
CONCLUSION: Worldly and fleshly lusts are the distemper which will not
allow contentment or satisfacti...
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James 4:1. _From whence come wars and fightings among you?_ St. James
saw in the Spirit the bloody and cruel wars which would rise among
christian powers, much the same as among the heathen. He had a...
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UNFAITHFUL PEOPLE! "As an adulterous wife is unfaithful to her
husband, so your spiritual adultery is unfaithful to your God!" DON'T
YOU KNOW? "You gain the friendship of worldly people by sharing in...
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_The friendship of the world is enmity with God_
THE FRIENDSHIP OF THE WORLD ENMITY WITH GOD
I. WHAT WE ARE TO UNDERSTAND BY THE FRIENDSHIP OF THE WORLD.
1. In what sense the word “world” is to be...
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JAMES—NOTE ON JAMES 4:4 ADULTEROUS PEOPLE. Old Testament prophets
used this language to describe Israel’s unfaithfulness to God
(Jeremiah 2:20;...
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THE LOWER AND THE HIGHER LIFE
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_
James 4:1. LUSTS.—Pleasures, but viewed on their evil side.
_Desires_ that are ill regulated. Compare 1 Peter 2:11; Romans 7:23.
Evidentl...
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EXPOSITION
JAMES 4:1
REBUKE OF QUARRELS ARISING FROM PRIDE AND GREED. A terribly sadden
transition from the "peace" with which James 3:1. closed....
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This chapter could be entitled how to win friends and influence
people. Guard your tongue, bring your tongue under control, use it for
good, use it to encourage to build up, don't use it to tear down,...
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1 John 2:15; 1 John 2:16; Galatians 1:10; Genesis 3:15; Hosea 3:1;...
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Ye adulterers [μ ο ι χ ο ι] All the best texts omit.
Adulteresses [μ ο ι χ α λ ι δ ε ς]. The feminine term is the
general designation of all whom James here rebukes. The apostate
members of the church...
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Ye adulterers and adulteresses — Who have broken your faith with
God, your rightful spouse. Know ye not that the friendship or love of
the world — The desire of the flesh, the desire of the eye, and t...
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It is spiritual, not corporal adultery, which these words take notice
of: the inordinate love of this world is called spiritual adultery;
because it draws away the love of the soul from God, and disso...