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JAMES CHAPTER 1
Jam_1:1 The apostle's address to the dispersed Jews.
Jam_1:2-4 He recommendeth patience and joy in afflictions.
Jam_1:5-8 and prayer with faith.
Jam_1:9-11 He giveth advice to the poor and to the rich.
Jam_1:12 The reward of those that are proof under trial.
Jam_1:13-16 Our own lusts, and not God, tempt us to sin.
Jam_1:17,18 God is the unchangeable author of all good to his creatures.
Jam_1:19-25 We must receive the word with purity and meekness, and not
only hear, but do it.
Jam_1:26 The necessity of governing the tongue.
Jam_1:27 The essential duties of true religion.
James, the son of Alpheus and brother of Jude, called likewise the brother of the Lord, Gal_1:19.
A servant; not only by creation, as all the creatures are, Psa_119:91, or by redemption, as all believers are, but by special commission in the office of an apostle; see Gal_1:10 Phi_1:1 2Pe_1:1; compare likewise Rom_1:9.
Of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ: the members of this clause may be taken, either jointly, and then the conjunction and hath the power only of an explication, q.d. The servant of God, even the Lord Jesus Christ, as Tit_2:2 and the sense must be, the servant of Jesus Christ, who is God: or, separately, (which our translation seems to favour), to let his countrymen know, that in serving Christ he served the God of his fathers; and by the authority both of God and of Christ wrote this to them.
To the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad: being one of the apostles of the circumcision, Gal_2:9, he writes to all his believing countrymen wherever dispersed, as they were upon several occasions, and at several times, into divers countries, Act_2:9-11.
Greeting; a salutation usual, not only among the heathen, but the Jews, Mat_26:49 27:29; and used by the Christians, Act_15:23. It seems to answer to the Hebrew salutation, peace, which was comprehensive of all happiness; and so is this here to be understood.