Robertson Word Pictures - James 4:6

Robertson Word Pictures - James 4:6 - 4:6

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Robertson Word Pictures - James 4:6 - 4:6

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More grace (meizona charin). “Greater grace.” Greater than what? “Greater grace in view of the greater requirement” (Ropes), like Rom 5:20. God does this.

Wherefore (dio). To prove this point James quotes Pro 3:34.

God resisteth the proud (ho theos huperēphanois antitassetai). Present middle (direct) indicative of antitassō, old military term, to range in battle against, with dative case (Rom 13:2) as in Jam 5:6. Huperēphanois (huper, phainomai) is like our vernacular “stuck-up folks” (Rom 1:30), “haughty persons.”

But giveth grace to the humble (tapeinois de didōsin charin). Anarthrous adjective again, “to humble or lowly persons,” for which word see Jam 1:9. Cf. Jam 2:5-7; Jam 5:1-6.