Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadHeinrich Meyer Commentary - James 1:16 - 1:16
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
Jam_1:16 introduces the statement which follows as one particularly important. Not only the exhortation: μὴ πλανᾶσθε , but also the added address: ἀδελφοί μου ἀγαπητοί , shows how important this observation appeared to the author. A new line of thought, unconnected with the preceding, does not indeed begin with this verse; μὴ πλανᾶσθε must not therefore be considered, with Hornejus, Gebser, and others, only as the concluding formula to what goes before. Theile correctly observes: ubi antecedentia respicit, nunquam finit cohortationem, sed ita interpositum est, ut continuet ac firmet, nunc illustrando, nunc cavendo. The same formula is found in 1Co_6:9; 1Co_15:33; Gal_6:7 (similarly 1Jn_3:7); in all those places it precedes a thought certain to the Christian conscience, by which a preceding expression is confirmed in opposition to a false opinion: this is also the case here. Grotius inserts an entirely foreign reference when he says: hoc vult: ne putate vestrum studium sufficere sine precibus; see Luk_18:1. There is here no reference whatever to prayer.