Matthew Poole Commentary - James 5:13 - 5:13

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Matthew Poole Commentary - James 5:13 - 5:13


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Is any among you afflicted? either troubled or afflicted in mind, as appears by the opposite being



merry, or more generally afflicted any way. Not that we need not pray at other times, but when under afflictions God calls us more especially to it, and our own necessities put us upon it.



Let him pray; for support, patience, sanctification of afflictions, &c.



Is any merry? let him sing psalms; express his mirth in a holy manner, by praising God with psalms or spiritual songs for mercies received from him, 1Co_14:15 Eph_5:19; and so keep up his spiritual mirth by a spiritual exercise, lest his cheerfulness degenerate into vanity and frothiness.