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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - James 5:7 - 5:7
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Be patient therefore - as judgment is so near (Jam 5:1, Jam 5:3), ye may well afford to be “patient” after the example of the unresisting Just one (Jam 5:6).
brethren - contrasted with the “rich” oppressors, Jam 5:1-6.
unto the coming of the Lord - Christ, when the trial of your patience shall cease.
husbandman waiteth for - that is, patiently bears toils and delays through hope of the harvest at last. Its “preciousness” (compare Psa 126:6, “precious seed”) will more than compensate for all the past. Compare the same image, Gal 6:3, Gal 6:9.
hath long patience for it - “over it,” in respect to it.
until he receive - “until it receive” [Alford]. Even if English Version be retained, the receiving of the early and latter rains is not to be understood as the object of his hope, but the harvest for which those rains are the necessary preliminary. The early rain fell at sowing time, about November or December; the latter rain, about March or April, to mature the grain for harvest. The latter rain that shall precede the coming spiritual harvest, will probably be another Pentecost-like effusion of the Holy Ghost.