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Endureth (hupomenei). Present active indicative of hupomenō. Cf. Jam 1:3.
Temptation (peirasmon). Real temptation here. See Jam 1:2 for “trials.”
When he hath been approved (dokimos genomenos). “Having become approved,” with direct reference to to dokimion in Jam 1:3. See also Rom 5:4 for dokimē (approval after test as of gold or silver). This beatitude (makarios) is for the one who has come out unscathed. See 1Ti 6:9.
The crown of life (ton stephanon tēs zōēs). The same phrase occurs in Rev 2:10. It is the genitive of apposition, life itself being the crown as in 1Pe 5:4. This crown is “an honourable ornament” (Ropes), with possibly no reference to the victor’s crown (garland of leaves) as with Paul in 1Co 9:25; 2Ti 4:8, nor to the linen fillet (diadēma) of royalty (Psa 20:3, where stephanos is used like diadēma, the kingly crown). Stephanos has a variety of uses. Cf. the thorn chaplet on Jesus (Mat 27:29).
The Lord. Not in the oldest Greek MSS., but clearly implied as the subject of epēggeilato (he promised, first aorist middle indicative).