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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - James 2:7 - 2:7
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“Is it not they that blaspheme?” etc. as in Jam 2:6 [Alford]. Rich heathen must here chiefly be meant; for none others would directly blaspheme the name of Christ. Only indirectly rich Christians can be meant, who, by their inconsistency, caused His name to be blasphemed; so Eze 36:21, Eze 36:22; Rom 2:24. Besides, there were few rich Jewish Christians at Jerusalem (Rom 15:26). They who dishonor God’s name by willful and habitual sin, “take (or bear) the Lord’s name in vain” (compare Pro 30:9, with Exo 20:7).
that worthy name - which is “good before the Lord’s saints” (Psa 52:9; Psa 54:6); which ye pray may be “hallowed” (Mat 6:9), and “by which ye are called,” literally, “which was invoked” or, “called upon by you” (compare Gen 48:16; Isa 4:1, Margin; Act 15:17), so that at your baptism “into the name” (so the Greek, Mat 28:19) of Christ, ye became Christ’s people (1Co 3:23).